Obviously on the guy in the front's side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354003)

But it's not their fault that we're in a situation where their fatness becomes my immediate pressing problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354260)

this reminds me of the flight thread we were on the same side on re: a person *should* give up their seat for a worse one to enable a child and parent to sit together. the difference between these two is that asks whether a person should do something for the overall good despite being entitled and having more individual benefit not to, and this asks whether a person can be *prevented* from doing something they're entitled to for the good of others.

front seat guy *should* accept some personal sacrifice for the good of the collective, i agree. but he doesn't *have* to, and a person that *forces* him to is worse.

a man should stand for a pregnant woman who has no seat on a train. but a man who rips that person out of his chair because he won't is behaving even worse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354411)

kvetching about the jews is a non-sequitor. recognizing that gc is ultimately responsible for this doesn't change the reality that people must contend with it right here, right now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354508)

this is a much closer case than the airplane seat. the behavior of the man sitting is much more offensive than that of the recliner and the behavior of the intervenor is for the benefit of another person in presumably greater need. seatkickers are invariably the most bitchass ratface-types imaginable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354469)

Obviously you cannot push their seat back up.

Sometimes I will offer them $20 to not recline. Weirdly, about half turn me down while the other half are always like kind of offended and start to defend their right to decline and then realize that I have offered to purchase that right from them.

I’m very tall and strong, fyi.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354095)

genuinely surprised the seats recline and a seat in front of him will recline, 100% chance he reclined his seat the second the doors closed on the plane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354254)

u paid for the seat, they all recline

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354424)

1. Many Americans act like complete pieces of shit to one another and should be more civil. If someone asked me nicely to stop reclining I would probably try to accommodate them, as it doesn’t really matter and seats typically only recline an inch or two.

2. If it’s a daytime domestic flight, there really is no reason to recline. Night time or long haul flights are a different story entirely and you should expect the person in front of you to recline. It shouldn’t come as a surprise and you shouldn’t flip out.

3. I’m a bigger guy. I inadvertently recline my economy airline seat all the time because my portly corpus inevitably decompresses the button to recline if I leave the arm rest down. I also generally lift all arm rests, but sometimes the bitchy flight attendants insist that arm rests go down, and you have to follow crew orders on the airplane. Compliance sometimes results in a kooky unintentional decline due to forcing the armrest back down into its locked position.

On balance, I really don’t want to take sides, but the guy behind appears to have caused an unnecessary scene and he shouldn’t be allowed to fly if he’s going to behave in that manner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354497)

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354567)

https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1750844881183951.png

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5786991&forum_id=2),#49354569)