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The FAA defines a standard passenger as 170 pounds.

so I guess a fair amount of healthy men(not overweight) will have to pay double too?
Your bias is terrible btw. Who cares what your personal bias is my friend. If you don't care for fat folks, don't associate with them, but to make stupid comments? I think for very obese people, this is reasonable, but let's face it...lot's of people are "getting off" on these sorts of things because they hate fat folks, ugly folks, whatever and they enjoy watch people they don't enjoy to look at, be punished. This is disgusting behavior whether it's on the right or the left. Never seen it so obvious as the right though and it's one thing that I've always found repugnant about fr boards whether it's making fun of Anne Coulter because she's too skinny or making fun of the fatties.

I am not making fun of fat people. I believe that obesity is a huge problem in America but I am not out to correct it. If someone can not control their urge to eat that is no more my problem than if they are unable to control their urge to drink alcohol or shoot heroin. I don't care about others personal decisions. When their decisions affect me personally, however, that is another story.

You need to have the experience I described. To be stuck in an airplane with a morbidly obese person pressed tightly up against you, sweating on you, for a three hour ride in a plane that you paid $500 to be on is somthing that is grossly unfair to me. To get off the plane and smell like the pig you sat next to is enormously unpleasant.

Stupid comment, no. Just one of the many very unpleasant experiences I have had with a fat person on a plane. A fat person who, by any logic, should have paid for and used a second seat. I fly a lot because of my job.

I don't hate anyone, but I do detest being forced to sit in intimate proximity to a person who is so fat that they must share the space I paid for.

I am 6'1" and weigh over 200 pounds but I am quite capable of sitting in the middle row and not intruding on my neighbors space.

If you want to be a bleeding heart for fat people, do it at your own expense!