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Originally Posted by Russic
The way I look at it, if you can afford a plane ticket you can afford a $30 pair of headphones (or $5-$10 if you get the cheapo headphones from the airline). You don't necessarily need to spend $100 on noise isolation, simple cheap ear buds for the most part do just fine. If you can't afford the $30, I totally understand ... just know that if a noisy situation arises you'll most likely have to live with it. You have to make the call if sanity insurance is worth $30 to you.
I suppose I don't quite understand why you think the view that you can't totally control your surroundings is dangerous. Perhaps I am misunderstanding your point.
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Because a lot of people are complete jerks and totally intolerant of situations like this and are prepared to confront people with unruly children. While I do agree with basic libertarian tenets, I think that thrusting sole responsibility on to others is unhelpful as it removes any responsibility of the parent to temper the situation by controlling the child's behaviour.
Plus noise canceling headwear is not always the answer. I fly a lot for business, academic stuff, and sometimes it is necessary to prep for meetings/conferences with a colleague, and the introduction of earphones or earplugs isn't appropriate. Which is why I think that this is a bigger issue than simply purchasing audio equipment.
That is all.