Solution to Full-Body Scanners

Here’s a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners at the airports:

All we need to do is develop a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have hidden on or in your body.  The explosion will be contained within the sealed booth.

This would be a win-win for everyone.  There would be none of this crap about racial profiling and the device would eliminate long and expensive trials.

This is so simple that it’s brilliant. I can see it now:  you’re in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion.  Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system, “Attention, standby passengers! We now have a seat available on flight number…”

Seat Belt Laws – Airport Pat Downs – Obama Care: It’s All About Conditioning!

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CONDITIONING:  “The process in which the frequency or predictability of a behavioral response is increased through reinforcement (i.e., a stimulus or a reward for the desired response). Classical, or respondent, conditioning, which involves stimulus substitution, is based on the work of Ivan Pavlov, who conditioned dogs by ringing a bell each time the aroma offood was presented. Eventually the dogs salivated when the bell rang, even if no food odor was present; salivation was thus the conditioned response.”  From:  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

How far will we allow our government to go, to protect us from ourselves?  Anyone over 60 certainly remembers when government wasn’t telling us what we could eat, what we could drive, where we should live, or require us to wear seat belts or bicycle helmets.  Somehow we managed to survive without government intervention.  It must have been a miracle.

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