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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't condone this woman's behavior at all (although I understand her frustration). I also think the comments calling these people 'porkers', 'fatsos', etc. are very rude.

However: for those justifying the obese couple's behavior. [b]Please explain why it is acceptable for someone to pay for XYZ amount of space, and occupy XYZ.5 amount of space? If I pay for a handbag at the store, I can't just walk out with the original handbag plus a half size handbag for the same price. I don't understand how anyone thinks that is okay[/b]. [/quote]

You are using a faulty analogy here. There's a difference between goods and services, and an airplane ticket isn't the same as a handbag at a store. Unlike handbags, people vary and can't control their size (at least, at the moment of boarding that flight). It's not that they are spilling in the adjacent seats out of spite, if you get my drift, they just don't fit in theirs.

How is this different from mainstreaming special needs children into regular classrooms? Your SN child requires extra help, throws tantrums and slows down the pace of instruction, while my little genuis is quietly suffering in the corner, "not working to his full potential", and both of us pay taxes into the system, in fact, I may be paying more than you are. But the law requires the school to educate everyone, regardless, so the little genuis just has to suck it up and deal. This is life. 
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First, public education is a right. Flying on a private airline (to Vegas, no less) is not a right.

Second, you're disgusting for seriously suggesting that a SN child is the same as a 400 lb obese couple - not one but two heavily obese people who are so big and gross that they don't even want to sit next to each other on the plane even though they're actually married. One of whom can't even wait until the plane actually leaves the ground to put more food into her mouth.[/quote]

I couldn't agree with you more. that's incredibly rude to say about a SN kid.[/quote]

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