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by s3p 939 days ago
>2. While facial ID is currently optional, "there is no guarantee that will remain the case" -> this is a textbook slippery slope argument,

And? Years ago you could say the same thing if OP complained about the TSA starting to use biometrics. And you would be disregarding their very real concerns, especially when they would have been right about them. I believe this is also the case now. OP has a valid point.
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landemva 939 days ago
> you would be disregarding their very real concerns, especially when they would have been right about them.

Which TSA concerns were they right about and what dates?

Matching pictures doesn't indicate a person smuggling items onboard, and the hijack avenue ended on 9-12 when in-flight procedures changed. Ramp workers and flight crew, and even TSA, go around the TSA screening and can smuggle anything that somebody holding their family hostage at home tells them to carry.

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