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[โ€“] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings

The solution to the airport being bombed right in front of the security line: while they rebuilt they packed everyone even tighter in temporary tents with longer queues. Then they rebuilt everything the same.

Terrorists and security theater designers operate on the same logic: 30 dead in a security line is nowhere near as big of a deal as 30 dead in an airplane. You only become a high value target when you're 30k feet in the air, even if the end result is materially identical.

[โ€“] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

30 dead in a security line is nowhere near as big of a deal as 30 dead in an airplane

I understand your point, but the airplane usually has well over 100 people on it and itself can also fall out of the sky and hurt people that aren't on it

Security theater is annoying bullshit that doesn't even catch a shocking number of shit, but planes get more attention for what should be obvious reasons