Plane passenger says she's reporting seat-puncher to the FBI

[davide405]

@spetrovits

If you don’t like the prospect of someone’s seatback angling towards you slightly, buy a bulkhead or exit row seat, or ride the bus. You don’t get to tell me how to fly.

@Dioptase1

I and every other passenger would like to tell you you are wrong.

@kit

What a ridiculous assertion.

@Spyrograph

I’m reclining my seat that’s in front of you and if you ask me very politely to put my seat up… My response will be “No”. Don’t like it? Don’t fly.

Reduced to ethical bare bones, these arguments all come down to:

1. There is an action I can take that will marginally increase my comfort for a period of time.
2. I am entitled to take the action unilaterally.
3. My action may affect the comfort of a specific fellow human. Not some faceless stranger, not some diffuse group, but an actual real person who is literally close enough to me to touch. A person that I can have a conversation with about my intended action.
4. Regardless of the affect my action will have on my fellow human, the increase to my comfort is the only factor I will consider in my decision as to take the action or not.
5. If my fellow human doesn’t like what I did, it sucks to be them; I was entitled to take the action I did.

American Airlines threatened to arrest me, says woman whose seat was continuously punched by man sitting behind her

It’s a great video to watch all the way through, but I’ve cued up final recommendation.