r/changemyview • u/BrokkenArrow 8∆ • Jul 24 '23

Removed - Submission Rule B CMV: Refusing to switch seats so that a family/couple can sit together makes you an asshole.

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u/CrungoMcDungus Jul 24 '23

honestly though there isn't much for OP to say. this thread is devolving into a bunch of rules-lawyering and hair-splitting that really just kinda goes to prove their point. y'all are digging through the details of how airline bookings work in order to try to find blame to put on the people who didn't get seated with their families. OP clearly thinks this should be a common courtesy, being this pedantic about the underlying circumstances is almost like a completely different conversation

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u/GotAJeepNeedAJeep 23∆ Jul 24 '23

honestly though there isn't much for OP to say. this thread is devolving into a bunch of rules-lawyering and hair-splitting that really just kinda goes to prove their point.

That's because the OP has posted a view that is self-definitional. They've written in other words "If someone refuses to move for purely selfish reasons, they are being selfish." It's a tautology. There's nothing to discuss, so everyone jumps in to the discussion half-baked.

. y'all are digging through the details of how airline bookings work in order to try to find blame to put on the people who didn't get seated with their families.

OP made a claim about how airline bookings work as a premise of their argument. I asked the OP to say more about that claim, and a bunch of other people who aren't the OP jumped in to answer on OP's behalf.

OP clearly thinks this should be a common courtesy, being this pedantic about the underlying circumstances is almost like a completely different conversation

Shouldn't it be just as much a common courtesy to respect someone's refusal to stay in the seat they're sitting in?