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Originally Posted by HarryT
Then how can you claim that it is "security theatre", given that it's actually happen?
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If laptop/Kindle bombs are so terrifying, what are we doing about the fact that now anyone can smuggle a bomb anywhere laptops or Kindles are allowed: i.e. almost the entire rest of the world? Cafes, crowded theatres, schools, stadiums, Boxing Day sales, Parliament House? Nothing. There are many, many ways to kill and terrorise. A lot of them are very low-tech. When the focus is on preventing explosions, people drive trucks into crowds. Etc.
A single incident where a single person killed himself isn't worth a huge wave of further restrictions on freedoms, because these changes will achieve little or nothing and will in no way be worth what they cost. And it distracts us nicely from areas where actual change could be achieved. That is security theatre. Security theatre isn't about preventing impossible fairy dust attacks, it's about ridiculous overreach and keeping us afraid and compliant.
If your threshold for introducing new restrictions on freedoms is a single death, that's a slippery slope to utter absurdity.