It’s their personal business all the way up until their girth is impacting other people on shared transportation systems.
If this guy was 20 pounds over weight and wouldn’t fit into the airline seats, that would be the airline’s fault and they should make bigger seats. But when they’re a whole person overweight it’s legitimate to charge the guy extra. But we have this victim mentality in this country right now and whenever an airline starts talking about charging large passengers extra people start throwing around the “discrimination” word.
There’s no “hate”, it’s just a simple reality. There’s no possible way this guy can fit in a single seat designed for anybody of normal dimensions. He’s fat, maybe it’s genetics, maybe it’s too much time at the buffet line, doesn’t matter, he occupies two seats worth of space, and the airline should charge him accordingly without anybody yelling at the airline.
I agree. Wasn't that simple? :0)
But the predominant emotion is less flattering and I maintain that *because* you are right that large people cost more to transport and take up more space it is the AIRLINE's responsibility to either charge more or change accomodations so that all their paying customers are satisfied.
Blaming the *airlines* is appropriate, blaming the large passenger is not. But we do things backwards sometimes.