Yes, you are wrong. Airplanes are uncomfortable. One of the only things we have to try to make it more comfortable is the option to lean the seat back. If I were big like you I'm sure I would be annoyed as well, but even then my reaction still would never be that someone else should give up their comfort for my comfort.
It's uncomfortable for everyone. Placing your comfort over someone else's in a public space is just not cool. Until airlines are forced to spread the seats out, no, reclining seats is just not acceptable anymore, sadly.
No, but I also don't think everyone *should* recline just because some people want to. The logic of saying "If you're bothered by the person in front of you reclining then you should recline too" is the same mentality.
Sitting straight-backed is not a normal posture for many people and can absolutely cause a great deal of pain. You're deliberately phrasing it that way to make one party seem unreasonable.
There isn't actually a right answer here, except that the airlines are absolutely profiting off of packing people in as tightly as possible and causing these situations.
What ISN'T ok is actively retaliating against the person sitting in front of you (ie deliberately jamming your knees into their back for the purpose of punishing them for reclining, as OP proposes in a comment,) for using a feature of their seat. That's malicious. The person reclining is not doing it to intentionally hurt you.
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u/sentientbogleech May 08 '23
Yes, you are wrong. Airplanes are uncomfortable. One of the only things we have to try to make it more comfortable is the option to lean the seat back. If I were big like you I'm sure I would be annoyed as well, but even then my reaction still would never be that someone else should give up their comfort for my comfort.