Warbler said:
if you were a female 16-40 or whatever age, would you not be afraid that pics of your body were being used as jack off material?
You yourself may have no problem with nudity, but surely each person has the right the make up his/her mind about that, don't they? Especially when the nudity involves his/her body itself.
Well, again, this is why I'm asking questions. I still don't know if this is any different from any other X-ray machine. Because, honestly, there's a philia for everything, and if someone would really feel titillated seeing a photograph of my skeleton used to see if I have a box knife hidden away up in my prostate (oh, wait, I'm a female in this hypothetical scenario, so... other body cavity I guess), well, I gotta say it's really not gonna bother me that much. It's not as though if that kind of image shows up on the internet, I'm going to get calls from relatives saying, "Oh my gosh, I just saw photos of not only your naked left tibia but your scapula on a paysite!" So, yes, I still have my two questions:
1. Is this some new high-tech "remove clothes" beam rather than the traditional "I'm a haunted house reject" X-ray machine?
2. Do they take photographs to keep on record with this new "remove clothes" beam, or does the image only exist for the duration you're walking through it?
And, yes, I agree. People do have the right to make that choice for themselves. I am by no means advocating that my views should apply for everyone (although I personally think if everyone thought like me, the world would be a better, albeit extremely confusing, place =P), but in a way I'm wondering if this doesn't tie back in to our earlier discussion about business freedom. People can make a choice. They can choose to find other means of transportation if this methodology bothers them. It's not like government officials are banging down our doors to make us go through the "remove clothes" beam. Only those who make the choice to fly. And if enough people are truly uncomfortable by this thought, airline sales will drop. Yes, the government does have a much larger hand in airlines than in other commercial businesses. But, really, I wonder if people just refuse to fly, if airlines could put enough pressure on government to do away with what the majority believes is an invasion of privacy. Don't know if that's in any way realistic or not, but I'm just throwing that out there for thought.
Personally, I agree with C3PX's line of thought that putting armed federal marshals on planes would just be the simplest way to deal with all of this nonsense.