I agree it’s a nice thing to do for somebody, but I don’t like the implication that if you don’t, it’s because you’re not a nice person. None of us knows each other or understands our reasons for things, and being understanding can go in lots of directions.

This is a simple life lesson - No means NO...... And you are not required to explain yourself to anyone.

This sentence sure does: “People live incompetently, then try bullying or guilt to solve the problem they created for themselves.” 

Yeah, you’re shitty. Even if it was equivalent they’re still not required to change with you. And celebrating your offspring vomiting on someone is pretty despicable. 

Then everybody clapped, right?

Fuck off, not the same thing at all... 

Wow, what a fucking asshole you are... she did pay for her seat, so that should be it. Talk about entitlement.

This is the world we live in. People live incompetently, then try bullying or guilt to solve the problem they created for themselves. So many people these days are just too lazy to do what they need to do correctly, and then they depend on submissive strangers to get what they want. 

So you’re an asshole then. Your fucking piece of shit kid too.

Never offer a favor unconditionally to a stranger. “I’d be happy to switch, person who didn’t plan far enough ahead, but only if it’s another aisle seat.”  Don’t get up until they can meet your conditions.

We rarely know everything behind a stranger’s situation. Maybe she had a death in the family and booked last-minute tickets to attend the funeral. Maybe another family member just called to say they’re suicidal or in desperate medical condition, and she dropped everything and booked the only seats she could grab.

It seems like they were genuinely being considerate of you, by being totally inconsiderate to you.  I can’t even tell if I’m mad at them or not.

This gives them an out to say “yeah that’s fine!” and then you’re in an awkward position. I just say no (although it’s been a few years since I was asked to swap). 

I’m an airline captain and I would never ask someone to move seats unless there was a really compelling reason. Usually the flight attendants take care of all this and I only show up if there’s trouble.

What kind of situation needs to be happening for the pilot to come out of the cockpit to tell a passenger which seat to sit in? Granted I don’t fly all that often, but I’ve never heard of this happening. I’d always assumed it would be up to the FA’s to settle any disputes.

If he wants to sit next to his wife that badly, his wife could have offered her upgraded seat to the aisle or window seat in the row behind you and there almost certainly would have been a taker. Assholes.

The common argument for it (or at least the one I’ve heard) is, “Animals in the wild do it, it gives them so many nutrients!”

It’s very simple. Politicians who aren’t senile pivot smoothly, they pivot once, and they pivot from the start. They “whatabout” it out of the gate; “that’s a great question, but what the real problem is...” and off they go. They literally answer a question that wasn’t asked as if they were answering the original…

Well Trump supporters are the dumbest people in the country, if not the world. Any Biden supporter is at least smart enough to not be a Trump supporter, so it really is a mystery why anybody likes Biden.

Brown person would casually be just racist like that.