Would you fly your a/c into building?
If Top Gear producers could relate it to cars then yes...
Would you try to blow your a/c up?
Again, only the smallest of reasons needed...
So if you don't want to go through the scanner or want your children to, then you have your answer, go by train, boat or what ever, but not by plane.
It is simple, you have a choice.
Well summed up. We seem to live in a society where everything it wrong - there is always a problem.
Personally, I feel the authorities have made the perfect call on this issue: I would rather them see my b*ll*cks on a screen than on 'Air Crash Investigation' twelve months later...