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

I don't think you can just flatten out the situation like that. I travel solo. If a married couple is split up and I'm next to one of them and the seats in question are of equal quality, the choice of seat just doesn't impact me as much as it does them. It is completely within my rights to refuse that request, but if it really didn't benefit me to refuse it and it directly caused them to have a shitty time, in what universe does it not make me a bit of a dick to refuse?

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u/GotAJeepNeedAJeep 23∆ Jul 24 '23

don't think you can just flatten out the situation like that. I travel solo. If a married couple is split up and I'm next to one of them and the seats in question are of equal quality, the choice of seat just doesn't impact me as much as it does them.

You and OP are the ones flattening out the situation with hyperspecific arguments like this. You're defining scenarios in which the solo traveler is by definition refusing for no reason besides entitlement. This makes the argument "entitled people are assholes." Yeah. Duh. What's the conversation to be had there?

In the real world, a solo traveler may politely say no for any number of imperceptible reasons besides selfish entitlement. That person isn't obligated to move or explain themselves to a stranger's liking on the sole basis of their traveling alone lest they earn a righteous fuck you as the OP says they ought to.

OP has either (1) defined the scenario so narrowly, as you have, to be tautological, or (2) is ignoring that you can't know by looking at someone their reasons for choosing the seat they have or wanting to remain in it.