Hotels should enlarge hallways
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At what time should the needs/wants of a minority be the rules for the majority?
I don't have a big problem with it as long as it does not negatively effect the majority.
@taiwan_girl said in Hotels should enlarge hallways:
At what time should the needs/wants of a minority be the rules for the majority?
I don't have a big problem with it as long as it does not negatively affect the majority.
If demands are "bigger seats on airplanes" and "bigger hallways in hotels," the winners are all airline and hotel customers (the majority), the losers are the airline companies and hotels' stock holders/proprietors (the minority, assuming they cannot pass the additional costs on to their customers).
Otherwise the additional costs get spread around to all customers, each of us pay "just a little bit more" to accommodate certain groups of minorities. But that's fairly typical how modern society bear the costs of accommodating the minorities (think the ADA, all the accommodations for the blind, the deaf, and the infirm).
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@taiwan_girl said in Hotels should enlarge hallways:
At what time should the needs/wants of a minority be the rules for the majority?
I don't have a big problem with it as long as it does not negatively affect the majority.
If demands are "bigger seats on airplanes" and "bigger hallways in hotels," the winners are all airline and hotel customers (the majority), the losers are the airline companies and hotels' stock holders/proprietors (the minority, assuming they cannot pass the additional costs on to their customers).
Otherwise the additional costs get spread around to all customers, each of us pay "just a little bit more" to accommodate certain groups of minorities. But that's fairly typical how modern society bear the costs of accommodating the minorities (think the ADA, all the accommodations for the blind, the deaf, and the infirm).
@Axtremus said in Hotels should enlarge hallways:
If demands are "bigger seats on airplanes" and "bigger hallways in hotels," the winners are all airline and hotel customers (the majority), the losers are the airline companies and hotels' stock holders/proprietors (the minority, assuming they cannot pass the additional costs on to their customers).
If they can pass the costs on, then the customers are not the winners.
If they cannot, then there costs could go up so that they eventually go out of business or decrease flights on certain routes.
To me, it comes down to common sense. I am not yet convinced that overweight is a disability the same as being blind, missing a leg or two, etc.
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I just pushed a fully loaded luggage cart past a loaded housekeeping cart through a hotel hallway. If you need more space than that to get through, you have bigger problems, indeed.
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Why stop at overweight people? I don't like having somebody sitting next to me. I demand a free empty seat, too.
In fact, I don't really like paying for flights. Both seats should be free. Make travel more accessible to people who have a really hard time managing their money!
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@Axtremus said in Hotels should enlarge hallways:
If demands are "bigger seats on airplanes" and "bigger hallways in hotels," the winners are all airline and hotel customers (the majority), the losers are the airline companies and hotels' stock holders/proprietors (the minority, assuming they cannot pass the additional costs on to their customers).
If they can pass the costs on, then the customers are not the winners.
If they cannot, then there costs could go up so that they eventually go out of business or decrease flights on certain routes.
To me, it comes down to common sense. I am not yet convinced that overweight is a disability the same as being blind, missing a leg or two, etc.
@taiwan_girl said in Hotels should enlarge hallways:
To me, it comes down to common sense.
Ok to start with "common sense," but don't stop there. Try to get to a point where you can articulate a coherent policy and be able to defend it.
I am not yet convinced that overweight is a disability the same as being blind, missing a leg or two, etc.
I suspect many agree with you. I mentioned disabilities because I expect advocates for the overweight/obese to argue that way.
