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[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. 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. [/quote]

I don't think it's 'ok' but I think this is the airlines fault and they put people in impossible situations constantly that cause passengers to turn on each other instead of the airline.

A handbag costs thr same for a 160 pound woman as it does for a 300 pound woman. The store sells things in a way to not impose on others. The concept of an airline seat being synonymous with a rental of square footage is recent. Tall people, people with children, all kinds of people can infringe on space because it is a tiny amount of space.

You're not paying for a handbag, you're not really paying for a seat. You're paying for fuel and the ability to be transferred from point a to point b safely. When you choose public transportation you choose to interact with the public.

Airlines have made air travel extremely stressful and they have cut corners designed to see how far they can go before passengers break. In this situation they have counted on the prejudice and vitriol people have for fat people to escape the ramifications. Good customer service would be both not making fat people feel like horrible blights on society AND not making smaller sized customers feel infringed on. If that handbag lady in front of you made a fat customer go sit in an uncomfortable chair and left her there on display while she took care of thin customers and showed no empathy for service towards her would you buy that handbag? I wouldn't. [/quote]

Your post doesn't really make sense.

The point is that there's literally NO WAY to not "make fat people feel like horrible blights on society" unless they make them pay more to be accommodated differently. Which is discrimination, perhaps, and at a minimum you'll get obnoxious people like the ones in question here thinking that they should be able to fly in the same seats as everyone else in the same way as everyone else without anyone calling them out on anything. They could have followed the policy (or basic manners/human decency) and purchased extra seats, but they were too entitled to do that. They need to be FORCED to pay extra, FORCED to "care" about others, and but then they will "feel like horrible blights on society".

[b]The fact is that someone has to pay extra for those people being so fat. The question is - should it be the airline (which essentially pushes the increased costs onto other passengers indirectly), should it be the other passengers directly (in terms of removing their space/comfort), or should it be the fat people themselves (which would need to be mandated, since clearly most of them won't do it by choice)?[/b][/quote]

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