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Talk about 1% dictating to the other 99%... If I told EasyJet that I was gluten intolerant, would they ban glutens for me?

Mirioron 7y ago
If just coming into contact with gluten could kill you, then yes, I believe they would.
- jazoom 7y ago
  https://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies/types-food-allergy/wheat-gluten-allergy https://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies/types-food-... Gluten can induce anaphylaxis in some people. I guess we just wait now for them to ban all gluten-containing foods?
  - Mirioron 7y ago
    You don't induce it by breathing in residual dust of gluten though, do you? And again, if you do, then I'm sure the airline would accommodate you.
pattle 7y ago
The thing is though is people can die if they get an allergic reaction. Is not being able to eat peanuts for 12 hours or so worth someones life?
- Chris_Chambers 7y ago
  Dysgenic freaks of nature are biohazards and should be sterilized to prevent them from passing on their dangerously flawed genes. The fact that they aren’t sterilized means that their deaths are in fact a good thing for humanity as a whole.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  >Is not being able to eat peanuts for 12 hours or so worth someones life? No. But seeing decisions being made based on the lowest common denominator to the inconvenience of everyone else (able bodies people are not inconvenienced by wheelchair ramps) is annoying to everyone who is inconvenienced (edit: for small values of everyone) regardless of whether or not it's an objectively good decision. Some people want peanuts and they're pissed they can't get them because of an edge case. I'm not saying it's right but it's human nature.
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  - all2 7y ago
    > But seeing decisions being made based on the lowest common denominator is annoying to everyone else (edit: for small values of everyone) regardless of whether or not it's an objectively good decision. I don't agree. Vehemently. I am not irritated by the fact that there are ramps on most sidewalks to accommodate those in wheel-chairs, or that there is seating set aside on public transit for those who need it, or that sidewalk crossings speak to those who cannot see... Have you no love for your fellow man? Are you so disconnected from others that their lives are now just an irritation to you? What you've said makes me sad. And angry. All life is valuable, sacred even. Assuming there is some "lowest common denominator" that must be "catered to" places a value judgement on those who have different needs and abilities. Are some people really worth less to you?
    - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
      >I don't agree. Vehemently. I am not irritated by the fact that there are ramps on most sidewalks to accommodate those in wheel-chairs, or that there is seating set aside on public transit for those who need it, or that sidewalk crossings speak to those who cannot see... You listed a bunch of accommodations that do not actually inconvenience you. The people who enjoyed peanuts as one of the few remaining "nice things" about air travel are rightfully annoyed that the airline is canning them because of an edge case. Personally I think they made the right decision but I'm not so dense as to express bewilderment as to why some people don't like it. >Have you no love for your fellow man? Are you so disconnected from others that their lives are now just an irritation to you? >What you've said makes me sad. And angry. All life is valuable, sacred even. Assuming there is some "lowest common denominator" that must be "catered to" places a value judgement on those who have different needs and abilities. Are some people really worth less to you? I hope this is just virtue signaling (and I mean that in the purest dictionary definition way with none of the political charge the term seems to have taken on) and you don't actually take my previous comment to mean what your reply seems to think I mean. In any case, I assure you the tone of your comment is not making me love my fellow man any more.
- towndrunk 7y ago
  What is the data here? How many people have died on an airplane due to peanut allergies?
- NikolaeVarius 7y ago
  Lets ban peanuts in public, they can kill!
  - whenchamenia 7y ago
    You can pry my honey-roasted assult peanuts from my cold dead hands. A well regulated snack is essential to the preservation of fullness. Seriously though, this arbatrary banning of things for a small population seems compassionate, but is really just making more peoples trip a bit less pleasant, in an already decidely unpleasant way to travel.
maxerickson 7y ago
If you think about it, the ratio is even worse than that, because it isn't the peanut allergic dictating anything, it's EasyJet telling peanut lovers to get stuffed (with something other than peanuts).
foxyv 7y ago
If gluten created airborne debris that could kill people, then yes, definitely!
croon 7y ago
Are you inconvenienced by someone elses deadly allergy and comparing that to dictatorship?
wedowhatwedo 7y ago
What is it about peanuts that you require them on your flights even if it could hurt people on that flight?

Mirioron 7y ago

If just coming into contact with gluten could kill you, then yes, I believe they would.

jazoom 7y ago
https://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies/types-food-allergy/wheat-gluten-allergy https://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies/types-food-... Gluten can induce anaphylaxis in some people. I guess we just wait now for them to ban all gluten-containing foods?
- Mirioron 7y ago
  You don't induce it by breathing in residual dust of gluten though, do you? And again, if you do, then I'm sure the airline would accommodate you.

pattle 7y ago

The thing is though is people can die if they get an allergic reaction. Is not being able to eat peanuts for 12 hours or so worth someones life?

Chris_Chambers 7y ago
Dysgenic freaks of nature are biohazards and should be sterilized to prevent them from passing on their dangerously flawed genes. The fact that they aren’t sterilized means that their deaths are in fact a good thing for humanity as a whole.
dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>Is not being able to eat peanuts for 12 hours or so worth someones life? No. But seeing decisions being made based on the lowest common denominator to the inconvenience of everyone else (able bodies people are not inconvenienced by wheelchair ramps) is annoying to everyone who is inconvenienced (edit: for small values of everyone) regardless of whether or not it's an objectively good decision. Some people want peanuts and they're pissed they can't get them because of an edge case. I'm not saying it's right but it's human nature.
- deleted 7y ago
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- all2 7y ago
  > But seeing decisions being made based on the lowest common denominator is annoying to everyone else (edit: for small values of everyone) regardless of whether or not it's an objectively good decision. I don't agree. Vehemently. I am not irritated by the fact that there are ramps on most sidewalks to accommodate those in wheel-chairs, or that there is seating set aside on public transit for those who need it, or that sidewalk crossings speak to those who cannot see... Have you no love for your fellow man? Are you so disconnected from others that their lives are now just an irritation to you? What you've said makes me sad. And angry. All life is valuable, sacred even. Assuming there is some "lowest common denominator" that must be "catered to" places a value judgement on those who have different needs and abilities. Are some people really worth less to you?
  - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
    >I don't agree. Vehemently. I am not irritated by the fact that there are ramps on most sidewalks to accommodate those in wheel-chairs, or that there is seating set aside on public transit for those who need it, or that sidewalk crossings speak to those who cannot see... You listed a bunch of accommodations that do not actually inconvenience you. The people who enjoyed peanuts as one of the few remaining "nice things" about air travel are rightfully annoyed that the airline is canning them because of an edge case. Personally I think they made the right decision but I'm not so dense as to express bewilderment as to why some people don't like it. >Have you no love for your fellow man? Are you so disconnected from others that their lives are now just an irritation to you? >What you've said makes me sad. And angry. All life is valuable, sacred even. Assuming there is some "lowest common denominator" that must be "catered to" places a value judgement on those who have different needs and abilities. Are some people really worth less to you? I hope this is just virtue signaling (and I mean that in the purest dictionary definition way with none of the political charge the term seems to have taken on) and you don't actually take my previous comment to mean what your reply seems to think I mean. In any case, I assure you the tone of your comment is not making me love my fellow man any more.
towndrunk 7y ago
What is the data here? How many people have died on an airplane due to peanut allergies?
NikolaeVarius 7y ago
Lets ban peanuts in public, they can kill!
- whenchamenia 7y ago
  You can pry my honey-roasted assult peanuts from my cold dead hands. A well regulated snack is essential to the preservation of fullness. Seriously though, this arbatrary banning of things for a small population seems compassionate, but is really just making more peoples trip a bit less pleasant, in an already decidely unpleasant way to travel.

maxerickson 7y ago

If you think about it, the ratio is even worse than that, because it isn't the peanut allergic dictating anything, it's EasyJet telling peanut lovers to get stuffed (with something other than peanuts).

foxyv 7y ago

If gluten created airborne debris that could kill people, then yes, definitely!

croon 7y ago

Are you inconvenienced by someone elses deadly allergy and comparing that to dictatorship?

wedowhatwedo 7y ago

What is it about peanuts that you require them on your flights even if it could hurt people on that flight?