Janet Severe, a Colorado member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, believes the weight cut-off is a clear-cut case of discrimination.
Yes, it is discrimination. We discriminate against people who are likely to cause damage to our equipment which will deprive many other people from access to it
"I think this is a horrible message. It tells people, 'Hey, if you're 'X' amount of pounds, boy, you better stay home because we're not going to make anything available for you to move.'"
You are using the metro by privilege not by right. You may have the right to freedom of movement,(depending on the constitution of the country) but there is no requirement for the government or anyone else to supply you with transportation.
"All I want to do is make it equal for all of us," Kern said.
Sure equal means that if you pay the same bus fare as I do then you should not take up two or more seats on a crowded bus while a under weight person is stuck standing or is squeezed into 1/2 a seat. Perhaps we should have passangers pay by the pound/Kg or even by cubic displacement, would this be fair?
Another of my pet peeves is flying the airline weighs my luggage and charges me if I am 2kg over the limit, but then I end up sharing a seat with some 165Kg behmoth who paid the same for the ticket as I did. Shouldn't it be *TOTAL WEIGHT* of passenger and luggage?</rant> |
