On: The Two Classes of Airport Contraband

[glymor]

Death is not the worst consequence for a voluntary suicide bomber since it occurs in all outcomes.

[mattmaroon → glymor]

Not when they get caught. Often they don't detonate.

And even if it were the only consequence, it would therefore be the worst (and the best).

[hugh → mattmaroon]

I assume the worst consequence, from their point of view, would be humiliation.

Either a humiliating failure to detonate, or a humiliating detonation that kills only them, and slowly, like that guy who tried to drive a truck bomb into Glasgow airport.