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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
They should be accountable. If you want to eat cookies and ice cream and cheeseburgers all day long, then you should also have to purchase 2 plane tickets and pay more for health care. People who end up with illness related to smoking, drinking and eating too much should be paying for it.
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To me this is heading down a slippery slope.
If you have family members who have diabetes, heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure or any number of other ailments that can often be genetically passed on to someone should those people have to pay more for healthcare? The odds are they will likely end up costing more than the average person.
The two seat thing I don't have a problem with. I spent most of my life overweight and finally got a hold of it a few years ago. I lost a lot of weight and feel so much better now. The way I looked at it was that it was unfair of me to do something where my size my impede on someone else's life so if I had to fly I either paid for two seats or sometimes I flew with friends etc who told me they didn't care if it was a little cramped. Hell, on most airlines anyone over 125 pounds it too big for those seats.
However, I found most people didn't have the same courtesy. I don't how many flights I have been on where people let their kids run around, scream, yell and act terrible. On one flight there was a woman and her three kids behind me. They were all 8-12 years old. They spent the whole flight kicking my chair and screaming. Several people asked them to stop and she just shrugged and said, "They are kids. They will act like kids."