[shruubi]

I'm not a parent, but if I was I'd rather have security tell everyone, regardless of their motives to move along and not be anywhere near the children and offend a bunch of innocent bystanders than the alternative.

The way I look at it, if the standard you set is to tell everyone to move along, then you are creating the systems and processes necessary to prevent bad actors from doing what they will try and do, and that outcome is infinitely more important than some passer-by's feelings.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Or, maybe this is the classic 'bad actors don't stop being bad, but everyone gets punished' setup that seems to be more prevalent now than it ever was.