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Larry, I read and enjoy your many columns over the years, I am glad I found this forum before writing on your answer to Unfriendly Skies. My issue here would have been the lack of tolerance in your original answer. This is the United States of America, and we are given by Constitution many rights, the ones in my thinking would the the right to Life, LIBERTY and the pursuit of Happiness. The so called Right to Equality is an invented right not conferred by the original document. Liberty infers that our many diverse opinions are just as protected as is our right to have them. Just because the woman did not want to sit next to any particular person is a personal judgment call, it may have been in many opinions unfortunate that she chose to express it in that fashion, but suppose it had been a Muslim Woman not wanting to sit next to a strange man. Would the Muslims womans reasoning been more understandable and politically correct in any particular view? And, would your answer have been the same? It would also seem that it was over-looked that the woman did not request that the Man be moved, but that her seat be changed for her own benefit... Again, you did express remorse for you answer, but the view point that an unpopular personal opinion deserves any less respect than another is, well INTOLERANT. Intolerance should be addressed also, in today's complex political environment un popular views should be respected also. Intolerance from the "so called left" now seems to be the most worrisome issue in our society today. Thanks for the opportunity to express in this forum...