Originally Posted by
nk15
You are missing the point, both the obesity epidemic and the narrowing airline seats are the side effects and results of the same capitalism system being unchecked and going off the rails. If the trends continue and we go with the attitude expressed above, in 5 years obesity will be at 50% of the population and airline seats will be 15 inches wide, and so on. The system is broken and needs to be fixed. Doug if he had his way there will be only one airline and would make all seats 10 inches wide and ask everybody to buy two, because that's what unregulated capitalism does.
The point of this thread is not the broader issues of unregulated capitalism or unregulated caloric consumption by Passengers of Size.
The question is what do you do when the passenger beside you is quite overweight and spills in to your seat. Anything else is just excusing POS for thinking their size, self-inflicted or not, entitles them to take up someone's else's space.