just wait and see

If there is one thing that I believe causes damage to society its knee jerk reactions. By this I mean that when something goes wrong there is an immediate short-term remedy implemented that doesn’t solve the problem. Airport security is notorious for this, take the shoe bomb policy in the US . I can’t imagine that too many bombing attempts try this method but the “Solution” is that everyone has to take their shoes off to enter scanners.

The problem with knee jerk reactions is that they are often Band-aid solutions, they only treat the symptom and not the greater problem (Treating shoe bombs and not attacks in general).

I’m not saying I know how to treat the bigger problem, however punishing everyone is definitely not the way. It’s just that many security and government agencies use this as their “Go To”.