Obese have right to 2 airline seats: Canada court

[SMCengineer]

Come on guys…

What is considered obese today is a joke. The BMI formula is ridiculous and if you look at advertisement everyone should look like an anorexic Calvin Klien model to be “healthy”. According to what the “marketed” social norm that is being sold of “normal weight" is, most of us on this board would be considered obese by that standard.

The “normal” body weight is being set by an industry that does not care about individuals / people (insurance, fashion/ textile, transportation, HMO, ect.) but is only motivated by maximizing profit and cutting cost.

Which, in result, only creates a false group to blame that won’t necessarily oppose this discrimination because of self embarrassment and self loathing perpetuated by the media and advertising of some flase "healthy standard" created by business.

This is typical of business / government to promote an agenda to create a scapegoat population. It’s very similar to the “war on terror” “war on drugs” and so on to create an enemy of out of a defenseless population. It’s like blaming the poor or sick for being poor or sick.

So come on people don’t believe the hype and stop following what marketing is propagandizing to all the sheep out there. In other words… Wake up and don’t be so naïve.

Think about this… every professional body builder, NFL lineman, most of the heavy weight strongman, most of the heavyweight powerlifters, and most of the heavyweight wrestlers would be considered obese according to industry standard. That means your heroes like Ronnie Coleman, Cutler, Yates, Haney, and yes even Arnold would all be considered obese. (I name these guys because they are all Mr. “O” winners and no other reason)

and one more thing to all the fattie haters

I fully agree with you. The "obesity epidemic" is widely overblown and highly marketable for the pharmaceutical and health food industry. In fact, I'm considered obese by many indicators, yet I'm only at 10% bf. However, I realize this point and I specifically said in my post, "They weren't discriminating against anybody by charging an obese or larger person for the use of two seats if they in fact used them." If a person is large enough to either take up two seats or take up one seat while rendering the neighbor seat unusable, they should in fact be charged for the use of two seats.

[Charger527]

I fully agree with you. The "obesity epidemic" is widely overblown and highly marketable for the pharmaceutical and health food industry. In fact, I'm considered obese by many indicators, yet I'm only at 10% bf. However, I realize this point and I specifically said in my post, "They weren't discriminating against anybody by charging an obese or larger person for the use of two seats if they in fact used them." If a person is large enough to either take up two seats or take up one seat while rendering the neighbor seat unusable, they should in fact be charged for the use of two seats.

^^ agreed, if they use the seat or make it unusable they should be charged, also if they decide to get one seat and the plane is busy and the person next them cannot travell in comfort they should be asked to leave the plane or pay for another seat if there is any...