TLDR ask person in front of you not recline and compensate them with drink or other small gift and most likely they will accept it even without the gift
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What is this blasphemy of treating humans like humans. It is crazy how many overly dramatic articles and situations could probably be resolved by simply civil dialog and discussion.
Because about half the time the response is extremely uncivil, so people are afraid to try the civil approach. So people do just as you say: treat humans like humans. Since humans are largely evil, that results in the behavior we see.
It's not that humans are largely evil but about asking people to be less comfortable based on your own preference. Don't recline. Move to a non-preferred seat so I can sit next to my girlfriend. Etc. In some cases this may be reasonable but they're the sort of negotiation I prefer not to get into on a Plane where you're implicitly the bad guy if you say no.
it's not about my preference if you hit me with your reclined seat
it's like saying I am making smoker less comfortable based on my own preference that I wanna breathe clean air, he is disrupting clean enviroment, you are disrupting good relations by reclining, I have no problem to not recline for person behind me, because once you do it everyone behind you have to do it to gain a little space the first person who started these selfishly took
It's not like that at all in this case the person in front of you has paid for that space you are occupying. It was never your space to begin with.
no, you buy seat with space for your legs, if someone is taking my space for legs he is taking something I paid for
they paid for space in front of their seat up to back of the seat in front of them
They paid for the space taken up when the seat reclined if your legs don't fit in that space they you need to buy another seat or pressure airlines to start better serving people of your size. It's not the person in front of you who is at fault it is everyone that has ever done a ticket search and sorted from lowest price to highest.
You are confused about what you paid for. You can ask the flight attendant and the person who reclines is in the right.
Is it evil or selfish? I think selfishness can be perceived as evil but I don't think people are intentionally evil to others. I think humans are inherently selfish which makes other's feel as though one's actions are evil.
"Treat humans like humans" also is defined based on where and how you were raised.