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« on: December 21, 2010, 12:44:41 AM » |
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ter·ror·ist
/ˈtɛrərɪst/ Show Spelled[ter-er-ist] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
2.
a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
TSA agents do terrorize and frighten people at the airports. They literally are "terrorists" by definition.
I did not use it in a hyperbolic way; I calmly explained that their actions fit the definition.
Why was I given 5 infraction points by Lunar? (As usual, no explanation was provided by Lunar or whoever else issued the infraction.)
Every single day "excessive hyperbole" expands to prohibit more and more discussion, and enable more and more moderator abuse. Please get rid of it, for the sake of the forum.
You just don't get it. You can argue that the TSA employees make people uncomfortable to various degrees, debate at length about privacy issues vs. collective security, but to equate employees that are checking for dangerous items to terror? like of death or dismemberment? you are again misusing the word to such exaggeration as to sound like a person calling a meteor shower as the approach of armageddon just to get people's attention... The point is that such exaggerations are so ridiculous as to mute serious debate over such important issues.
Note: I consider John Dibble's post exactly on point. |
