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by DeusExMachina 1596 days ago
Your comparison does not work. You can be taken away from a supermarket in that instance. You can legally come back to the same supermarket in the future. And even if the owner decides you are not welcome in his store, you can go to any other store.

Banning a person from ever flying again is not the same thing at all.
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Cederfjard 1596 days ago
I’m not taking a position here, but you didn’t counter their argument. They also explicitly stated that it’s not the same thing, but that it’s reasonable it gets treated differently because of the security ramifications. You didn’t engage with that line of thinking, you just reiterated that the context is different, which you both already seem to agree on.
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cromka 1596 days ago
Yes, they basically repeated the same argument to which I responded.
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bayouborne 1596 days ago
"You can legally come back to the same supermarket in the future." Incorrect, you can be trespassed and thus legally prevented from coming back to the same supermarket in the future.
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gregd 1596 days ago
Ok, let's use drunk driving as an example.

If you drive drunk and are caught, you can lose your license, which technically, means you can never drive yourself again.

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everforward 1595 days ago
> which technically, means you can never drive yourself again.

I haven't audited all 50 states, but at least in all the states I've lived in, there is no way to permanently lose your license from any number of DUIs. The license suspensions (and jail time) go up for each DUI someone gets, but they're always able to get their license back at some point.

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tremon 1595 days ago
Here in NL, a driver's license can be forfeited by judicial order. Usually in such cases, the driver has to re-take the driving test and can regain their driver's license that way, but it takes time and is quite costly around here.
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FabHK 1596 days ago
Which is why it might make sense to get the government involved, instead of having a purely private-sector no-fly-list sharing among airlines, which would effectively ground someone without supervision or recourse.

(Though I can imagine some libertarians reply "well, just take your own plane..." :-)

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cromka 1596 days ago
Yes, absolutely agree. Having such list is as important to flight safety as all the other FAA regulations.
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