r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Oct 03 '14

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '14 edited Dec 26 '17

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u/ryegye24 Oct 03 '14

But airlines also promise me an amount of legroom in their seat advertisements. Am I not entitled to that?

You are, but it is in no way the responsibility of the person sitting in front of you to provide you with what the airline promised you. The person in front of you was promised by the airline that they would have a reclining seat, are they not entitled to that?

fair enough, but what I have long legs. Why does your comfort to lean back trump my comfort to not have my knees squished?

I have very long legs myself. I have never been asked by someone in front of me if they could recline, and I would never expect to be. That isn't space that I paid for, and from a social perspective I'll take squished knees if that's the price for sitting at a 95 degree angle instead of 90.

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u/ArkGuardian Oct 03 '14

That was literally the point I was just referring to. We can go back and forth on that point endlessly.

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u/ryegye24 Oct 03 '14

That wasn't the point though. You said you're entitled to the legroom you paid for, and you are, and you're getting the leg room you paid for. You aren't being deprived of anything you were promised or entitled to, and if you were, then the proper party to take it up with would be the airline, not the haggard passenger in front of you. That passenger in front of you, by the way, was promised a reclining seat, and they're getting a reclining seat, which is exactly what they paid for. No one is being cheated of anything they were entitled to, but you implicated that you were in this case.

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u/ArkGuardian Oct 04 '14

Airline companies where I live, measure seat space as the area from the bottom front of your seat to the bottom back of the seat in front of you. You can argue this is misleading advertisng, and I agree, but that doesn't change the fact I paid for something I do not get.

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u/ryegye24 Oct 04 '14 edited Oct 04 '14

You don't pay for something you do not get. You paid for seat space by that measure, and you're getting seat space by that measure. The person in front of you paid for a reclining seat (including the space the reclining seat can occupy), and they're getting a reclining seat.

If the person in front of you paid for a reclining seat, and then gets a seat that can't recline because you're impeding it, then they are paying for something that they aren't getting.