• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    Yes, airlines literally have failed to keep customers comfortable, that’s the entire point. Zero people are comfortable on that flight, and everyone knows that when someone reclines back into them it becomes even less comfortable. You aren’t making your experience better, you’re making someone else’s worse. The airline failed by making seats uncomfortable, and you’re making a bad situation worse for the person behind you.

    Just because you can do things does not mean that you aren’t an asshole for doing those things. You’re allowed to block aisles in a grocery store, to go slower than the speed limit, to buy the last two packages of cookies when you know the person next to you also wants one, you’re allowed to do lot’s of things in life. It doesn’t mean you’re not an asshole for doing it. (In fact the entitled attitude you have without a care for anyone else kinda really drives home that you are)

    If no one is behind you then recline away.

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      1 year ago

      Reclining certainly does make my experience better.

      I refuse to accept responsibility for the consequences of a scenario that I didn’t create.

      Ideally the airline should simply make it so that the seats can’t recline.

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        1 year ago

        Enjoy getting kicked repeatedly then. If you don’t like it it’s not the person kicking you who is responsible you can talk to the airline if you don’t like it.

        • lazyslacker@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Actually you’re right, it’s that person’s prerogative to try to make themselves as comfortable as possible with the resources they’ve been given. They shouldn’t care about my comfort just as I do not care about theirs.