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Excellent, now that you have read the required content I will state my claim. Matt Milne made a valiant effort to disprove Vigeant’s claim that reclining your seat is a fundamental right a passenger has while on an airplane.

Quote. “Being able to recline a seat is really a privilege granted to you by the person seated behind you, here is my reasoning: when you buy a ticket on an airplane you are purchasing a number of things including a seat AND a specific amount of area around that seat.” -Matt Milne. End Quote.

Matt & Luke, in my opinion you actually have no rights other than essential human rights while you are a passenger on a domestic or international flight. It’s states clearly on your ticket that the airline can revoke your seat at time they wish and at best you are merely leasing a piece of space, with strict conditions for revocation on behalf of the airline if they, in any case, feel the need to do so.

Therefore, what you would define as your personal space that you are entitled to is loosely defined and is ultimately very cloudy. Furthermore, the act of reclining your seat on an airplane is neither a privilege nor a fundamental right. It is merely there, existing in a sort of purgatory or ambiguity if you will. Whether or not that action places the person behind you in discomfort is entirely an act of goodwill or negligence on your behalf.

I can assure anyone reading this post that your Human Rights are in no way being violated (More on Human Rights HERE) when the person infront of you reclines their seat.

This whole situation ultimately comes down to choice, that being; does the person sitting behind you really care whether or not you recline your seat? OR, do you want to be curtious to the person behind you or not?

What would my answer be? I for one don’t really care about the person sitting behind me and I sure don’t really feel any sort of need to be curtious. Am I an asshole? Probabaly. Do I care? No.