On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, there's a TINY little hole in your logic here...
Scale of distance is the only difference. Either you support the system or you don't. I don't: I either drive to jobs (charging for mileage) or I pass on them, rather than take part in the police state that is todays air system. You have the very same choices. The argument eveyone is making here is that it is too much of an inconvenience (financial or otherwise), *not* to fly. Sorry, but that's just pure self-serving BS.
For one, Flying can easily be a requirement, not an option.
You keep asserting this, but at the same time fail to provide an example. Please show how flying "can easily be a requirement, not an option". One legitimate example will suffice.
But that's besides the point here.
No - that's the entire point here.
The real point is that some Super-JAT could (5 years from now when there are ubiquitous highway checkpoints) argue that "walking from NYC to Boston may be difficult but it IS possible". Or of course (after Tenent's vision for the internet is realized) "You could simply Fedex those files, you don't need to use the internet"
So, your position is that we should not take action now, because we may have to take the same action later? If people would assert their economic powers today through refusal to fund the airlines, the same threat would prevent your example from being possible in the future. The only reason your "walking" scenario is even a little plausible is because TheMan/G'mint/etc., knows that there will be no pushback on *any* front. Also, not that while airlines are heavily regulated, they are not (theoretically at least) publicly funded, and as such, your "right" to use them is limited - whereas roads are public property, and will be a lot harder to place prohibitions upon. A real boycott of airlines would take only days to bring both the airlines and the TSA to it's knees - the economic impact would be both national in scope and immediate in effect: you can make no legitimate argument for not addressing the TSA problem head on. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org 0xBD4A95BF Civilization is in a tailspin - everything is backwards, everything is upside down- doctors destroy health, psychiatrists destroy minds, lawyers destroy justice, the major media destroy information, governments destroy freedom and religions destroy spirituality - yet it is claimed to be healthy, just, informed, free and spiritual. We live in a social system whose community, wealth, love and life is derived from alienation, poverty, self-hate and medical murder - yet we tell ourselves that it is biologically and ecologically sustainable. The Bush plan to screen whole US population for mental illness clearly indicates that mental illness starts at the top. Rev Dr Michael Ellner