I don't get it JR...
If you break your leg snowboarding, surely that is self inflicted, like smoking and obesity. How would they qualify? Or do you place a value judgement on what is "self inflicted" and what isn't. Those who are injured in a way you approve of are ok, and those you don't are not.
Actually, your system is far worse for the airlines and gate agents. It puts discretion into the system. This is highly subjective.. as illustrated by your distinction earlier relating to the woman who needed a wheelchair before she got fat. Under your system, she qualified when the cause was asthma, but when she got fat, which may have exacerbated her condition, she stopped qualifying.
It is nonsensical and puts gate agents and airline employees in an invidious position, which would likely create far more problems than it would ever solve.
The current rule is potentially open to abuse without a doubt.... but your proposed solution is guaranteed to be abusive. Especially if people with your somewhat extreme judgementalism were given the power to decide..
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