Businesses’ moral double standards abound
With pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s recent announcement that it has imposed strict controls on its drug sales to prevent — on moral grounds — any from being used for capital punishment, is this withholding of their products from some (though not most) buyers really any different in principle than the recent backlash against religious liberty bills that would benefit businesses wishing to limit the sale of their products or services from prospective purchasers with whom they also disagree on moral grounds?
Either way, what is legal or illegal for one ought be so for the other.
ALAN FOSTER, ACWORTH
TSA should return to random checks
The current widespread chaos at U.S. airports makes it abundantly clear that the present attempt to inspect the person and baggage of every traveler, 100 percent, is logistically, statistically and financially untenable. Repeated tests have shown that a resourceful and determined evader can readily bypass the system.
Before the current disaster gets any worse, it becomes urgent and appropriate to consider scrapping the present ineffective TSA approach, which merely gives travelers the illusion of added safety, and return to the earlier system of random checks by experienced customs or border officials, letting the majority of travelers pass unhindered. The miss-rate would probably be no worse than for the TSA systems, but the savings in time and money will be substantial.
There may be some complaints by groups that would feel stereotyped or targeted, but so be it.
GEOFFREY G. EICHHOLZ, ATLANTA
