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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't read the article but I have seen the issue come up on various boards.  In my opinion, being a family or traveling with kids doesn't entitle you to special treatment.  When I travel with my family I pay to pick seats, early check-in, extra space - whatever I think we might need.  If you're not willing to pay for that then you can't afford the trip.  Other travelers have also paid for those services and they don't owe you anything.[/quote]

I would like to live in a society that gives a little more grace and has a little more patience for society’s very young and very old (and their caretakers). Kindness is a value I love to see in companies and individuals alike. [/quote]

Why are families the only ones deserving of kindness? Look at it this way--you have your loving family. Someone flying alone may be single and desperately lonely and sad about it. Who deserves the grace and compassion? It's this kind of myopia that makes parents of young children so repugnant at times.

Disclaimer: there's nothing intrinsically wrong with being single and many single people are happy and content.[/quote]

Holy projection. Nowhere did I malign single people nor suggest they also aren’t deserving of grace and kindness.  We all are.  I believe American society suffers from a deep deficit of both.  The several nasty responses to my quite benevolent post is proof of that.

I wonder where we’re headed from here. [/quote]

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