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This discrimination problem is easily solved with a note from the doctor explaining your obesity as the result of a overactive gland of some sort or some other condition, where as "I'm too lazy to exercise" is not a valid medical excuse. If you can afford that extra serving of fries every meal, you can afford that extra seat charge. Consider it as simply spending that money you saved by not going to the gym on travel.
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Great, now you need to have a doctor's note if you are fat and going to fly.....
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Exactly. Illegal discrimination is based on aspects of a person over which they have no control or aspects over which society has deemed that they have every right to excersize full control without fear of being discrimated against for it.
Race, sexual preferece, disease, handicap, national origin, religion... these are all valid things that would fit under the discrimination law. If they were charging midgits double the price because they were...i don't know...scary to the pilot, it would be discrimination. But someone being obese when it isn't due to a medical problem isn't discrimination. Even when it is a medical issue... should another passenger really have to deal with having half of their seat taken up? I just don't see that as being right either.
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Discrimination is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. Discrimination based on something that doesn't matter in the slightest is a bad thing. If someone takes up two seats, that matters. If someone is black, it makes no difference whatsoever, unless you're into statistical analysis of life expectancy or something.
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