Lately, it’s died down a bit.  But for a while there, people were on quite the train of being mad at airlines that were instituting a policy of charging the obese more to fly should there not be an extra seat by them where they could accommodate larger areas.  But I mean think about it.  If you’ve ever flown next to a seriously obese person, it takes up a good part of your seat, and frankly it’s really not fair to you to have that imposition among other things.  It wasn’t just fat, it was actually requiring a seatbelt extension among other things.  There were definitely set down guidelines as to what constituted this rule.  And if there were an extra seat, they would gladly just let you board.  But frankly, there were a lot of people complaining that it was unconstitutional or otherwise.  I had to wonder, there are so many health problems with obesity as it is, why is it such an injustice to just lose the weight.  I know they should be able to make that choice for themselves.  But realistically speaking, when somebody does take up the equivalent of 2 seats and it puts an imposition on the person who sits next to them, that is a big deal, and frankly it’s not fair for the airline to say well too bad, you have to sit there.  I mean I just don’t see the logic of complaining about something that actually makes sense.