Director Kevin Smith Too Fat to Fly
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 14:35 (3260)
Posted by capnasty
Categories: Bureaucracy
When film director Kevin Smith was recently kicked off a flight because of his size, he focused his anger on Southwest, and that he suspected he may have been bumped by an airline employee who did not like his movies; the incident, however, is not about Kevin Smith, his ego or the quality of his movies, but on all airlines and their heavy passenger policies.
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Is it discrimination that TV doesn't offer a blow-by-blow of what happens in a movie, for the non-sighted?
Should cities level all hills, for those in a wheelchair?
I'm hard of hearing, should I sue my neighbors for wanting to sleep and asking me to turn the music down after 11? Even though that means I can't listen to music at all because *I* can't hear it?
Should we sue nature for not giving us wings?
Airlines make money transporting stuff from A to B. Weight and volume matters to them.
I've always said that airlines should start charging for weight and volume, the same way they do for freight. Skinny/small people get extra carry-on, heavy/tall people get less or a surcharge.
Seems "fair" to me, even though it puts some people at a disadvantage.
Which in itself proves that anti-discrimination policy isn't about "fairness", it's about treating everybody as if we are all the same.
Which we are not.
I think that's a *good* thing. I celebrate diversity. What I do *not* do, is *reward* diversity. Rewards are earned, not given on the basis on who we feel sorry for today.
But, I fear, the world at large disagrees.
You know what would be the ultimate level playing field? The most non-discriminating/bigoted society thinkable?
No?
Well, I do.
"We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological destinctiveness to our own. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile."