I have trouble picturing geometry in this space, but it certainly does not strike me as orthogonal. I find it fair, actually, to remind people of any occurrence of such power imbalance.
Not when there’s a giant spike in people being total jerks, grounding planes and making everyone late, and endangering peoples lives. This is not happening anywhere near the same scale of staff to passengers, so “reminding of a power imbalance” serves to create a false equivalency.
I have a smaller chance of being murdered than being robbed. Mere frequency doesn't make one crime lesser or greater than the other. It's possible to be cognizant of two wrongs and commensurately apply the appropriate remedies to each one. There's no reason to operate on the fallacy of there being only one problem to think of at any given time or to presume that covariance doesn't exist.
You are certainly right in the short term, but this no-fly list process, like any extraordinary process put in place in extraordinary circumstances, esp. around air flights, will stick forever.
