Comment by mbb70
1 month ago
I'm sure regular airline passengers trip the metal detectors more often than terrorists, doesn't mean we should get rid of the metal detectors.
1 month ago
I'm sure regular airline passengers trip the metal detectors more often than terrorists, doesn't mean we should get rid of the metal detectors.
A better analogy would be a passport. It doesn’t stop all terrorists from boarding a plane at lest it stops already know to authorities ones (unless they have a passport on someone else’s name which is not easy).
Or perhaps, why do you lock the door to your house? A few solid kicks will open most doors, the locks can be picked, someone can smash windows and enter, and many modern homes can be entered by ripping the wall open with a crowbar and axe.
It's to stop midrange threats.
Doors and locks are purely social construct. For majority of people it's much easier to justify stealing from a porch compared to breaking in.
No more, no less.
For spammers on other hand it's just a business, there will be no reprecussions like ever and we know quite a few big and legitemate companies who started their path with marketing spam sometimes using leaked email databases.
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I forgot the name of this fallacy, I read about it in Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile a long time ago, but basically being wrong at spam won’t cause a lot of damage while being wrong once about a terrorist may cause thousands of deaths