What is it about people who have nasty, harmful habits or diseases that makes them angry at their victims?

I'm sure you have read that actor and director Kevin Smith was recently booted off an airplane because he was too fat and two seats were not available. Instead of admitting that this is his fault, he took to Twitter to complain about it ¹. "I broke no regulation, offered no 'safety risk' (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?)" he tweeted (as of this writing Kevin has 1,657,866 followers).

PZ Myers at his blog thinks Kevin is not too fat and that we should be tolerant of fat people on airlines ². I disagree; Kevin doesn't look like he can easily fit into a seat to me, in fact he looks like a huge tub of lard. And tolerance for fatties is bad policy. When I was a child, fat kids were made fun of, and even though I did not engage in such taunting, it kept the fat population in check. Now that political correctness is the norm, we have tons of obese children littering the streets of our cities. The mass media should make fun of and ridicule fat kids just as we should make fun of and ridicule smokers or those who believe in a flat Earth or that the Sun revolves around our planet. Stupidity and primitive superstitions should be ridiculed. Else we encourage their spread.

Yes, fat people in a single seat are a safety risk. Drunk drivers are a safety risk. Smokers are a safety risk. Typhoid carriers are a safety risk. Don't go around blaming the victims for your behavior.

I do not want anyone fat sitting next to me on a flight unless they do not overflow into my area. Buy two tickets you slob.

I do not want anyone smoking next to me while I am eating. Go smoke at a garbage dump where no one will notice how much you stink.

I do not want drunks driving near me. Go to some deserted salt flats and amuse yourself where you cannot harm anyone.

Do not cook my food if you are a carrier of Typhoid fever. Find an occupation where you cannot spread the disease.

Am I being too intolerant?

Notes

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CNN, Kevin Smith 'too fat' to fly Southwest

Kevin Smith's most famous role is a guy who rarely speaks. But he's got a lot to say -- much of it profane -- after being kicked off a Southwest Air flight because he didn't fit comfortably into the seat.

"You [messed] with the wrong sedentary processed-foods eater!" Smith, whose next film, "Cop Out," comes out February 26, posted on Twitter.

It was one of many Tweets recounting the actor/director's humiliating expulsion Saturday from the Oakland-to-Burbank, California, flight.

Southwest said in a statement airline officials had called Smith to offer their "heartfelt apologies," but also stated his removal was for the "safety and comfort of all customers."

Smith, 39, originally purchased two tickets "as he's been known to do when traveling Southwest," the airline noted, but when he decided to fly standby on an earlier flight, only one seat remained. Although he had been seated, he was asked to leave.

"If a customer cannot comfortably lower the armrest and infringes on a portion of another seat, a customer seated adjacent would be very uncomfortable and a timely exit from the aircraft in the event of an emergency might be compromised if we allow a cramped, restricted seating arrangement," Southwest said.

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Pharyngula, Kevin Smith is too fat for the sky

Kevin Smith, the writer and raconteur, was recently booted from a plane for being too fat. He's a big guy, but not so big he doesn't fit in an airplane seat — so this looks like some weird, nasty, rude policy being pushed by Southwest Airlines. It's an injustice, but it's also hilarious, because Kevin Smith is the kind of guy who can turn it into a 1½ hour rant.

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I do a lot of flying, and I've had to sit next to a few very large people who are much larger than Kevin Smith. It was a far more pleasant experience than sitting next to a) the chain smoker who reeked of cigarettes and was jittering the whole time, b) the drunk guy who hadn't bathed in a few days, c) the couple with the baby who cried the whole flight, d) the little old lady who had to get up every 10 minutes to use the bathroom, e) the evangelical who tried to witness to me, or f) the young lady who was chronically airsick.