Following orders is never a defense for morally questionable actions.
So, I think it is not inappropriate to make it socially uncomfortable for the TSA employees to conduct their deliberately punitive, bordering on sexual-assault, pat-downs.
We should not make this easy on them. Yes, they are just employees, but when *they* refuse to follow illegitimate orders, we have yet another victory.
Should Rosa Parks had worried that she was making the bus drivers life difficult? We should be shaming them until they are unwilling to do it.
There may be a matter of taste, about exactly what one can or should do to make it as socially uncomfortable for them as possible. But we are under no obligation to make it socially comfortable for them to violate us.
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So, I think it is not inappropriate to make it socially uncomfortable for the TSA employees to conduct their deliberately punitive, bordering on sexual-assault, pat-downs.
We should not make this easy on them. Yes, they are just employees, but when *they* refuse to follow illegitimate orders, we have yet another victory.
Should Rosa Parks had worried that she was making the bus drivers life difficult? We should be shaming them until they are unwilling to do it.
There may be a matter of taste, about exactly what one can or should do to make it as socially uncomfortable for them as possible. But we are under no obligation to make it socially comfortable for them to violate us.