Originally Posted by
jefrank
I believe you misread the OP, you focused on the comment by the other PAX and the OP's response to that PAX instead of on the first paragraph of the post.
Perhaps. I've addressed that in another post.
I'll grant you the first, but the latter is at the whim of the airline. Seat assignments are not guaranteed and can be changed for any reason.
That's correct, but if seat assignments are changed, the problem is between you and the airline, not you and other passengers.
I don't agree. The major difference is the ability to apologize and get the heck out of there, which can't be accomplished on an airplane. The environment of an airplane is such that you're locked in once that door closes and no one gets off until you get to the end point, with very rare exceptions.
In a theater, the mood is destroyed and both audience and actors distracted if a child "goes off." Removing the child is a question of too little too late as the damage is done. However, I agree that no analogy is perfect.
No... he didn't say that objecting to seat kicking equaled child-hating, you introduced that term.
He said this, which is a more elegant version of the identical concept: "seems that when some people see kids on a plane the red mist descends. You are obviously one of those people."