Overweight folks aren’t always kicked off of Southwest. I was once PINNED against the window on a Southwest flight for SIX HOURS because the morbidly obese woman in the seat next to me took up 1/2 of my seat. It was literally painful, and I did not get a 50% discount for only getting 50% of a seat.
Fat people have every right to eat more calories than they burn off and thus have rear-ends that take up more than one seat. But, I have every right to get 100% of the space I’ve paid for. Obese people should absolutely have to pay for more than one seat.
I used to be a smoker, and when non-smokers finally complained loud enough, and the evidence of how bad it is for you (like being overweight) and the cost to society (also like being overweight) became louder than the smokers who wanted to smoke, smoking became banned on planes and in countless other places. Guess what? It became such an inconvenience that I, along with millions of others, quit. The same needs to happen with the obesity epidemic in this country.
Perhaps this is the impetuous Kevin Smith needs to get healthy.
I hope Southwest sticks to its guns.
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