While I fully agree with your general point that you have to compare your costs not with the current situation, but the counterfactual where you would not have incured those costs, in the TSA case, I wonder whether more regulation might also have an effect of increasing attacks chances by signaling that you care about attacks, therefore that attacks are efficient at hurting you.
While I fully agree with your general point that you have to compare your costs not with the current situation, but the counterfactual where you would not have incured those costs, in the TSA case, I wonder whether more regulation might also have an effect of increasing attacks chances by signaling that you care about attacks, therefore that attacks are efficient at hurting you.