Should obese people be required to buy two seats when flying?

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rocketpig said:
I've lucked out lately but being a 6'4" guy around 200 lbs, getting stuck next to a fatty is a truly miserable experience for me. I have a hard enough time jamming myself into some of those airline seats as it is. Getting stuck next to someone who can't lay off the fucking doughnuts and lasagna only makes it worse.

I may sound mean but it's how I feel. Some people are overweight for legitimate reasons; unfortunately, that's only a small portion of the fat bastards on this planet. The rest are that way because of their own doing. After spending a decade and a half in southern California and recently moving back to the Midwest, my tolerance for fat people is at an all-time low. Yesterday, I came out of a grocery store and saw a 5' tall 12 year old girl who probably weighed as much, if not more, than me. Ridiculous.

EXACTLY! I'm 6 5 and 200 and I feel the exact same. I also learned that people's vision of "mean" is sqewed. As far as I'm concerned, if it's true it's NOT an insult (fat, stupid, w/e) but truth. I don't know how society has made out truth to be insulting.... Next thing you know you won't be able to call whores whores because you'd hurt their feelings and it would be mean and not politically correct (when fat people go through what blacks went THEN they can whine about being called a specific word).