For all you know, maybe the guy was on his way to have surgery for his obesity so he isn't feeling like human feces because he's taking up someone else's space. And btw, handicapped people have every friggin right to try and do anything and everything possible to live as normal a life as they can. Why the hell should they just have to "accept" their lots in life?
I didn't say that handicapped people didn't have the right to try to live as normal a life as possible. I said that at some point, depending on the handicap, they have to realize they can't do everything that normal people can do. Otherwise they wouldn't be handicapped. There are going to be situations where some handicaps are going to restrict what you do and how you do it. That's a fact and it should be one that people learn to deal with instead of finding some one to blame or sue.
Walk a mile in their shoes or you shut the f*ck up.
Before anyone preaches to me about lack of empathy for a fat guy sitting half in my seat, I'd like to see them sit in my seat on that flight for nine hours and then see how they feel.
By all means you have every right to be comfortable in the space you paid for, not disputing that fact. Did you ask to be moved to another seat? Or did you just silently fume for hours over the fact that "mister fat ass" was taking up your space? Sometimes the lack of empathy shown by some on here reminds me very much of the borg. Fit in or get out mentality at it's finest.
If you read the original experience you'd see that I said it was a full flight. I looked and asked for an emply seat. None to be had. I had to endure the situation on a trans-atlantic 9 hour flight. I've sat next to large people on shorter flights and while I didn't like it, it wasn't overly burdensome. In this case it was extreme and it was a burden. All I'm saying is that if someone is that large, obese, fat, whatever, they should have to pay for the space they take up because no one else will be allowed to use it.