[trgdr]

This doesn't really bother me. My experience at football games tells me that, regardless of socioeconomic stature, no one really handles themselves well at sporting events after a few shots.

It's not too hard to keep a small number of people from causing chaos, but security presence costs money. Seems logical that VIPs would spend enough to make the security presence net profitable.

In a perfect world, we could either trust everyone to behave or we could afford to put security everywhere to enforce it, but we don't live in a perfect world.

[binaryblitz]

This is kinda my thought too.

You can also look at it as a "perk" of the more expensive ticket. First class passengers on an airplane are the only ones that get a full meal on most domestic air travel. How is this different?

[filoleg]

> First class passengers on an airplane are the only ones that get a full meal on most domestic air travel. How is this different?

Why go to meal comparisons instead of something more directly relevant? First class passengers get unlimited free alcohol (same with Comfort+ and above on Delta and many other airlines too), and economy class has to pay per-drink.

Part of the reason I feel like a meal analogy is not good is because it varies heavily per airline and per flight distance.

[plandis]

…and yet the US manages this just fine at sporting events? I doubt normal people even have the option to purchase “VIP” tickets that allow for alcohol.

[sneak]

The US slays something around 40 people a day from drunk driving, more than 10x more from mass shootings (for which the US is known).

Alcohol culture is a real problem that almost nobody seems to want to highlight or address. We're not "managing just fine".

(Cigarettes kill 7x more every day than opiates, but one is an "epidemic" and one is available without a prescription at every corner store. It's a pattern when you look at the policy incentives.)