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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: MrBojangles136
Posted by: Hylebos
It's a bus policy for those seats to be reserved for those who need them, and who needs them isn't your call, it's the bus drivers call. That fat person was just taking advantage of an existing policy, it's nothing personal.What are you talking about?
All seats, or are there special ones for disabled people?
Either way, fat isn't a disability. It's a choice.
Needing the seat (an inability to stand on a swaying bus) is a need, not a choice and not a disability.
The signs on the bus and on trains (I can't believe that we have to go into this sort of basic social skills) say "please offer your seats to those with a greater need for them".
If you want to get really into the hair-splitting, signs like that are conditional on the bus/trains obligation to give you transport. The seats are there, offered for the most needy.
If someone needs the seat, asks the driver/train attendant, and they concur, the person seated (with less of a need than the one who actually does need the seat) is the one who is being unreasonable, uncivil, disruptive and as a result, if off of the bus/train and wondering how their rights and needs were "so disregarded".
On the subject of social skills was it right for the man to demand the seat in such a rude manner? If someone walks up to and demands something, if they need it for some reason, make them instantly exempted from basic social etiquette?
The issue here isn't that the man was fat, fair enough some people are fat and he might of tumbled into someone on a corner. Yet does that justify him not extending the courtesy to someone who is willing to give up something they gained for his gain?
If the man had kindly asked to sit down because he struggles standing, then I'm certain most would comply, in a sense it's a form of charity- giving something to those that need it. So if a charity demands you pay them would you? Or would you prefer to avoid doing so in how they showed no respect for you, so why should you extend respect to them?