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Because it was on a Southwest flight. I don't think media asked KLM or Indigo if they'd like to have an extremist on their flights.

ryandrake 5y ago
Honestly, if your behavior was bad enough to get you banned from one airline for life, you are a menace and should be banned from all of them. I don’t want to sit down next to someone on a Delta flight who assaulted a flight attendant on Southwest.
- atq2119 5y ago
  Eh, some people are inherently violent. Many more people can be pushed to extremes given extreme circumstances. As long as you don't really know all the details, chances are good that people regret their actions and are going to learn from the event and change. Barring them from all possible flights for the rest of their life, which may yet last many decades, is likely to do more harm than good because it will cause resentment that can block this improvement in a person. By contrast, barring them from just one airline allows them to continue to live their life while also acting as a permanent reminder to be better.
  - oaiey 5y ago
    I would also argue that punishment by an organized monopoly situation (like airlines or tech giants) would create parallel structures to the law and order created by the nation states we created as the society. It would undermine the legal system.
  - ryandrake 5y ago
    Sorry, but when I’m in an aluminum can 35k feet in the air, I don’t want “inherently violent” people there with me or people with such poor impulse control that they might snap at anything they perceive as extreme.
    - atq2119 5y ago
      In that case, you really shouldn't fly in commercial planes to begin with. In case it isn't obvious: the number of people who can be triggered to be violent in the right circumstances is far higher than the number of people who have been so triggered. It's probably a significantly double-digit percentage of the population.
  - chrischen 5y ago
    I'm not sure that's the rational Delta would have. "We'll give you leniency because you punched our competitor's flight attendant." If we wanted such private bans to be rehabilitative then private companies should not be allowed to impose life-time bans.

ryandrake 5y ago

Honestly, if your behavior was bad enough to get you banned from one airline for life, you are a menace and should be banned from all of them. I don’t want to sit down next to someone on a Delta flight who assaulted a flight attendant on Southwest.

atq2119 5y ago
Eh, some people are inherently violent. Many more people can be pushed to extremes given extreme circumstances. As long as you don't really know all the details, chances are good that people regret their actions and are going to learn from the event and change. Barring them from all possible flights for the rest of their life, which may yet last many decades, is likely to do more harm than good because it will cause resentment that can block this improvement in a person. By contrast, barring them from just one airline allows them to continue to live their life while also acting as a permanent reminder to be better.
- oaiey 5y ago
  I would also argue that punishment by an organized monopoly situation (like airlines or tech giants) would create parallel structures to the law and order created by the nation states we created as the society. It would undermine the legal system.
- ryandrake 5y ago
  Sorry, but when I’m in an aluminum can 35k feet in the air, I don’t want “inherently violent” people there with me or people with such poor impulse control that they might snap at anything they perceive as extreme.
  - atq2119 5y ago
    In that case, you really shouldn't fly in commercial planes to begin with. In case it isn't obvious: the number of people who can be triggered to be violent in the right circumstances is far higher than the number of people who have been so triggered. It's probably a significantly double-digit percentage of the population.
- chrischen 5y ago
  I'm not sure that's the rational Delta would have. "We'll give you leniency because you punched our competitor's flight attendant." If we wanted such private bans to be rehabilitative then private companies should not be allowed to impose life-time bans.