[Publius Valerius]

I've been reading these threads, and neither one of you have answered what I think is a very real question: HOW does showing an ID at an airport make you safer?

What is really happening here is that both of you are trying to make an argumentum ad consequentiam, a fallacy in and of itself, but without even attempting to show that the consequences are true!

Maybe we should restrict travellers' right to travel anonymously if it can be shown that showing ID makes the world a safer place--but no one has made that showing to me, or anyone else, I don't think.

Don't forget, for the vast majority of airline history, no ID was required to get on airplanes, and the world continued to function just fine.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

Here's another team player who believes that he, PERSONALLY must review and approve all regulations before he gives his much sought after o.k.

He claims we make an argumentum ad consequentiam...HOW DARE WE???

I thought I was reading his responsium ad nausium!

To add insult to injury this dynamo must have spent the last several years on Mars if he equates today's airline travel with pre 911 airline travel...

[Cultural Jihad]

Indeed, the whole possibility of another 9/11 is itself pretty nil, since that subterfuge of a "normal" hijacking could only have been done successfully once. The terrorists could still manage to slit the throats of one or two stewardesses, but the rest of the passengers and crew will never again cower in anticipation that massive death will never result if they stay cool about it.

Does identification work 100% of the time? Do policemen prevent all crimes? Do we live in a place called 'Perfect'? No. But that is no reason to throw our hands up in the air and surrender to the whims of any Me-ocrat.