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Re: More on Airport security.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:53:07 GMT
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> The current service being provided (air
> travel) benefits the passengers and is already paid for by them (generally).
> The proposed service (enhanced security) does not only benefit the passengers
> and the airlines, so why should they have to carry the full cost of it?
The enhanced security is only necessary BECAUSE they fly. Security would be
enhanced even better if they didn't fly, but banning air traffic as a whole
seems a bit too far fetched ...
> Are you saying the average Joe Groundbound is entitled to this extra service
> for free?
We are not talking an extra service. We are talking the idea that someone
who creates a risk (the airlines in this case), and makes money from that,
should also carry the risk.
What would you think if some company decides to build an atomic energy plant
near your house, maximizing its profit (or the cost of electricity for its
customers) through lowest possible security measures. Would you, then, be
willing to pay them for the "extra service" of making their plant more
secure? Or wouldn't you actually think that the consumers of their
electricity should pay for that?
Now apply this same principle to air traffic.
:wq
Horst
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| (...) passengers (...) No, in this case it is necessary because terrorists are threatening to use the planes as bombs. Otherwise the extra security would've been put in place before Sep 11. (...) But that's what's being proposed! (...) I disagree. (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) would (...) choose (...) Then why did Klick make a point of it? The current service being provided (air travel) benefits the passengers and is already paid for by them (generally). The proposed service (enhanced security) does not only benefit (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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