02-14-2010
07:59 PM
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If this is truly about comfort and safety, then what about:
1) Individuals who put their seats back, encroaching in the ever-diminishing y-axis real estate? That's not comfortable for most people over 5'10", and for some of us can be extremely painful.
2) People who drink on flights, or take sleeping or other depressive medications? Certainly they might prove an obstacle to a safe exit in an emergency, etc etc.
3) Children who kick the backs of seats? That's certainly not comfortable for the person sitting in front of them.
4) People with disabilities that may make it more difficult for them to maneuver in an emergency situation?
Additionally, the width of airline seats continues to accommodate less and less of the population. Regardless of your moral views on people who are overweight, have wide hips, broad shoulders, and other encroaching factors in the all-important horizontal direction, you aren't going to make the population smaller with your policing of humiliation and discrimination. You should just own up to the fact that you don't accommodate a significant fraction of the population, and have no plans to do so.
And forcing that population to buy two tickets isn't accommodation, IMHO. It's a penalty, and you're only getting away with it because there are enough bigoted fat-haters to keep you in business. Perhaps, not for too much longer....? :)
A girl can dream.
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