Thursday, August 10, 2006

Costs of pieties

Political correctness rules and any hint of "profiling" is out of the question. But all choices (including liberal pieties) have costs. In this case, the screening all airline passengers for all personal belongings all the time will be very messy, to say the least. Bob Poole has been arguing this for some year.

But this time, the costs will not be hidden costs. We know that.