Based on the comments I've read here all I really gather is that perhaps airlines should start instituting a "no fatties" policy all together since over weight people are so reviled and as one person put it "subhuman" The fact that obesity is treated as some kind of choice to be disgusting and an inconvenience to others is appalling. Every person that has commented on this site has their demons, some just suffer from a lack of anything even coming close to normal human compassion while most other will likely have some kind of addiction or another. Smoking, Alchocolism, and narcotic addictions are somehow acceptable comepaired to having a food addiction, which I can guarantee you is much harder. As a former smoker and someone who has realized I could stand to lose at least 30 lbs I can tell you I would much rather quite smoking all over again than deal with the changes in my eating habits I am making now. The irritability I feel now far outweighs that of nicotine withdrawl and all I have done is cut out my usual daily snacking and switched to a non red meat diet. Keep in mind that people with food addictions still need to eat, smokers, drinkers and drug users can, no matter how hard it may be, can put down the source of their troubles and avoid them, forever. Ultimately Southwest and all other companies need to start thinking about how they treat customers, having a policy in place to buy 2 seats won't cover you when you are sued for publicly embarrasing numerous individuals. I'm sure papers on the class action lawsuite are being drafted as we speak.
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