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Originally Posted by Tervuren
It is the regular walking through a system where guilty is a base assumption over innocence.
Look at comments about the guy who may hold the line up from not having flown before and not inherently knowing what to do.
A little compassion would be patient. Instead there is an uncompassionate herd through the check point.
Standing legs spread with my hands up through a scanner in the same posture as a guilty criminal being searched for arrest can't be good for the human mind on a regular basis.
Each time you go through you give up being human temporarily.
Now some pick it back up on the other side, but the continual laying down of what we consider basic human rights and dignity to transform into animals at the airport has got to wear on some of those folks that do it regularly.
I know it is a necessity for some folks, and some may handle it better than others. Still, if you can avoid stepping in to such a situation you are better off.
It has been a gradual increase of one thing at time, so frequent fliers may not be aware of just how harsh things feel to someone who is not a frequent flier and is confronted with the "new ways" in all their glory.
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Well, next time you feel aggrieved about this process, thank a Muslim for ****ing up a perfectly suitable arrangement we had for decades.
I'm a pragmatist. Little **** like this doesn't really bother me. If you have a better solution, let's hear it.
Some people get bent out of shape over the smallest things, it's getting to be ridiculous.