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Originally Posted by NBC
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.
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I think we're going to have to agree to disagree here. I'm not seeing the connection between headphone wearers and unruly passengers. I could walk over to the couple and say "excuse me folks, hate to bother you but your screaming child is beginning to irritate me and the other passengers." Are you implying that the parents aren't actually aware of this? I've been the guy in the restaurant with the screaming baby and let me tell you, it's bloody
awful.
Of course the parents have a responsibility to keep the baby as calm as they possibly can. Problem is before I had a kid I didn't realize that sometimes it just doesn't matter. If something goes wrong there's no reasoning with a baby. They are godless screaming machines that demand action.
Totally on board with you with the colleague thing. I can appreciate that at times you need to have a discussion on a plane. This would be an unfortunate situation, but I would also think it a rare one. Perhaps I'm wrong and people are flying differently that I am, but I don't often see this. In that case it blows, but like Fotze says it's way worse for the parent imo.