security? what security?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 4 14:11:19 PDT 2002


Jordan Hayes wrote:


> >> I'm all for raising the bar for what it takes to hijack planes.
>>
>> That seems to assume that many people would hijack plane if it
>> were easy, so raising the bar decreases the incidence of
>> hijacking. That assumption is not very plausible, as evidence
>> by the fact that it is very easy to hijack a bus, yet bus
>> hijackings are as rare as plane hijackings.
>
>Your logic Kung-Fu is better than my logic Kung-Fu.

Of course, the utility of hijacking a bus is much less than hijacking a plane. You can't take a bus to Havana, or knock down a skyscraper with one.

Doug



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