[SketchySeaBeast]

Now we're in a prisoners dilemma, aren't we?

[waqf]

No, we're just in an equilibrium where everyone reclines. To be a PD it would have to be better for everyone if nobody reclined.

We're in, perhaps, a tyranny of the majority, but those are everywhere. As I'm sure you've already noticed if you're 6'6".

[bigbillheck]

> No, we're just in an equilibrium where everyone reclines

Never had to sit in the very last row of an airplane?

[readthenotes1]

We are in the trolley problem, not the prisoners dilemma.

And on some planes they even allowed those seats to recline a little, so maybe not in any philosophical debate other than that people often don't consider other people's suffering

[ryandvm]

Ah, so it's really a "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" situation.