DISQUS

Jon · 3 years ago

I disagree. Why haven't they been doing this since 9/11 - we knew this was a method used in the past (1995). What liquids do you really take on the plane anyway -- check your bag and read a book and order drinks in flight.
Sam Harrelson · 3 years ago

We have a considerably larger chance of dying in a car accident on the way to buy cigarettes and beer from the gasoline station then driving to McDonald's and loading up on a value meal. Oh, and the beer, cigs, gas and McDonald's aren't too good for us either.

Government should work to help us realize the rational risks involved in "terrorism" rather than trying to profit from it by instilling even more terror.
Jon · 3 years ago

Well, yeah. But regarding where the road and rubber actually meeting -- prohibiting this stuff (or any carry-on) isn't really giving up "freedom"
Sam Harrelson · 3 years ago

Sure it is... I had the freedom to carry on a bottle of water, now I don't have that opportunity. If you want to get into semantics, freedom is the condition of being free of restraints. So, a group of people with power (government) telling someone with lesser power (me) that bringing water onto a plane is prohibited is limited freedom.

Of course, Kris Kristoferson would argue that freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.