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Man accused of stabbing transgender teen 18 times at Miami airport
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Like I said, there is no perfect system. People are people and they fuck up. All the time. For some reason we have this really messed up idea in our heads that when we place people in certain positions we expect perfection. Doctors. Pilots. TSA. Whoever. Zero mistakes. But that’s not what happens, is it? There’s plenty of bad doctors. There’s an unfortunate number of doctors that fuck up. Same with pilots. Same with the TSA. Have a doctor do thousands of operations in a day. See how many mistakes they make. How many patients suffer for it? How many planes crash, or just screw up in ways that don’t result in death but break through some serious safety barriers?
It’s really messed up that we put people in positions and expect perfection, an impossibility, and then criticize them harshly for failure. The only way IMO to deal with this is to strive for improvement while understanding that people are just humans.
I get mocking the TSA. I deal with them every day I go to work. Yeah, it’s frustrating. The rules seem arbitrary and ineffective. But the only way I can balance this is that we need to compare it to what we had before and look at what we’re willing to implement (and pay for) to improve the system. I never hear of anyone with any decent suggestions, so I get tired of people bitching when they have nothing useful to offer.
E: ironic lol that I said “zero mistakes” while immediately promptly misspelling “mistakes”.
the TSA is not "not perfect"; they're a joke.
it's pure theater. they have basically no ability to detect actual weapons at all, hence why it's a common problem when passengers arrive abroad only to find out they accidentally carried loose ammunition across borders.
there's a huge difference between "not quite perfect" and "completely and utterly useless waste of time, money, and resources", the latter of which describes the TSA.
IF they actually did anything useful at all, then fine, you have a point. but they don't, which is why people are disagreeing with you.
because in principle you're right, that security is required and should be taken seriously....but the TSA isn't actually providing security. they're providing the appearance of security.