I understand that. But even by your own accounting, the odds of an airplane crashing into your home as a result of a TSA failure are very small.
The other side of the odds is not small at all. If you want or need to get across the country quicker than you can go by car or train, there’s pretty much a 100% chance that you’re going to be groped or irradiated. If you have to travel by airplane for a living and make, say, 30 trips a year, the odds are pretty much 100% that you’re going to be groped or irradiated not just once, but 50 or 60 times a year.
That’s simply unacceptable to me, and to a lot of others - EVEN IF it increases the level of safety in our society.
But the fact is, IT’S A USELESS EXERCISE designed only to make the sheep FEEEEEELLLLLL good. It’s not going to stop a terrorist from getting his bombs on board. If you’ve kept up on the details of effectiveness of these methods, you know that. And so do the terrorists.
Obviously profiling is called for, but so is a better immigration policy.
At the same time I'd rather be groped by 60 than go down in 1 plane crash.