"Thuggery" my butt. Methinks you don't know what thuggery is. I just flew from one corner of the country to the other yesterday in a little over 6 hours. The security and airline personnel were helpful and alert and the trip was a breeze. Walking through security is easy.... It is only dealing with butt-head people who find anything and everything intolerable that makes it hard.
I've had similar experiences. Of course, I've also had a male screener force my wife to unbutton and unzip her jeans because the jack*** couldn't figure out metal buttons might set off the wand detector. One experience like the latter, and you too might be determined to avoid demeaning minimum wage bureaucrats if at all possible.
To individualist-extremists, though, any personal sacrifice is just way too much of a burden to bear. It could be standing in a line, or removing one's shoes, or having to get a driver's license, or filling out a tax form. Butt-head people are all that matters in all the world to butt-head people. I call it a Me-ocracy.