Profiling for Terrorists
In this War On Terror, we profile against young Arab or Muslim-appearing men. This makes sense, doesn't it?
"Suggesting that a young single woman flying out of Sweden with a round-the-world ticket is equally as likely to hijack/destroy the plane as a group of young single "middle eastern" men with one-way tickets flyng out of Saudi Arabia, is letting your idealistic bleeding-heart-leftist-stupidity get in the way of common sense."
On the surface, this argument, this is sound logic. NMerriam has this to say on the topic, "No, you're letting your own shortsightedness miss the lessons of history. Terrorists don't have to win any sort of statistical battle, so it doesn't matter who is most likely or least likely to be a terrorist, it only matters who IS a terrorist. And terrorists have shown historically that they will find and use specifically those people who can circumvent the profiling methods you think are so useful.
"They don't have to find a million white Swedish pregnant women to join their cult, they only have to find one. It doesn't matter if there were a million young arab men willing to do the mission and only one white girl -- she's the one who will be successful. Just look at the IRA, they made a game out of circumventing attempts at profiling and were quite successful at it. Similar examples can be found in Iraq, Vietnam, WWII, etc, etc.
"Be sure to keep your nightlight on, the world is a scary place."
"Suggesting that a young single woman flying out of Sweden with a round-the-world ticket is equally as likely to hijack/destroy the plane as a group of young single "middle eastern" men with one-way tickets flyng out of Saudi Arabia, is letting your idealistic bleeding-heart-leftist-stupidity get in the way of common sense."
On the surface, this argument, this is sound logic. NMerriam has this to say on the topic, "No, you're letting your own shortsightedness miss the lessons of history. Terrorists don't have to win any sort of statistical battle, so it doesn't matter who is most likely or least likely to be a terrorist, it only matters who IS a terrorist. And terrorists have shown historically that they will find and use specifically those people who can circumvent the profiling methods you think are so useful.
"They don't have to find a million white Swedish pregnant women to join their cult, they only have to find one. It doesn't matter if there were a million young arab men willing to do the mission and only one white girl -- she's the one who will be successful. Just look at the IRA, they made a game out of circumventing attempts at profiling and were quite successful at it. Similar examples can be found in Iraq, Vietnam, WWII, etc, etc.
"Be sure to keep your nightlight on, the world is a scary place."
posted by the Hancock Effect at 6:20 AM
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