not really, no, this seems like you're responding to something else here.
> I only mentioned the free market because if they were to take this over, solutions would be available for both of us.
how exactly, I'd pick one airport and you'd pick another ? I'm not sure that's very practical in many situations.
> If I were you I'd reflect on how others feel here.
I know how they feel, the TSA is an offensive, incompetent and heavy handed group, combating a so called "issue" that in reality is not an issue at all. The HN community looks at issues in a statistical fashion - terrorist attacks kill extremely few people, so there's really no reason anyone should care about them, slipping in the shower is a much greater hazard. If only the rest of the world could think like they do, nobody would care about terrorism and it would just go away. I look forward to when that comes to fruition.
> I'd love for you to point me to people who are happy about laws like these from a sociological or philosophical perspective.
Well I'm not speaking from any authoritative background here but I'd guess that the average US traveler would prefer there be some level of airport screening (probably not at the crazy levels we have at the moment with the TSA) not for any sociological or philosophical viewpoint but probably more like a "hey can't someone sneak a bomb onto the plane here?" kind of standpoint - which sure is informed by the media and all that, and statistically is an insignificant threat, but there you go. (so perhaps the psychological perspective is the primary mechanism at play here).
