The other day, my buddy Paul Harris wrote about seat-reclining problems on airplanes. The airlines are squeezing more and more seats into their planes now and it's becoming a problem for us tall people when the seat in front of ours reclines. Actually, I've always had a problem with this and I'm only 6'3". I have no idea how people taller than that cope.
For whatever it's worth, I never recline my seat intentionally. I sometimes hit the button by accident but I've never found it makes me any more comfortable. Because of that, I'm in agreement with Paul's suggestion that this capability be eliminated.
And maybe we'll get our wish. As this news story notes, there's been an increasing number of fights on planes because of seat-reclining. They sometimes even lead to flights having to make emergency stops due to brawlers. Something's gotta change.