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| Porn on a Plane? | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 7 2007, 11:54 AM (539 Views) | |
| Post #1 Jul 7 2007, 11:54 AM |
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PC World Article According to the article, there is nothing a passenger can do if the person in the next seat opens his laptop and starts watching explicit porn. Why not? Fear of lawsuits and the fact that watching porn is not one of the behaviors explicitly prohibited in the terms and conditions set forth on the ticket. Lawsuits kill judgment, good and bad. In times past, cabin personnel could have demanded that the man stop. Other passengers could've applied pressure to have the man behave civilly and with consideration for his seatmates. Now, due to our litigious society, the judgment of judges and juries, after hours to weeks of deliberation and thought, with an undue eye to fairness and the right of anyone to do virtually anything, have replaced the on-site judgment that we used to place in individuals, from cops to doctors to teachers, and now, to flight crew. It is perfectly reasonable for a flight attendant to politely remind the man that his ticket is not a license to do whatever he will and that the airline routinely expects a modicum of consideration for fellow passengers. It is perfectly reasonable for the flight crew, including the captain, to require and, if need be, force compliance. Unfortunately, in our current legal climate, that would be illegal. Watching porn in your seat, without regard to who is next to you and who will be subjected to the porn (potentially a child) is not illegal. The world is upside-down. |
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| Post #2 Jul 7 2007, 08:47 PM | tanack |
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i would be extremely peturbed if a passenger on any public transportation system was watching porn without regard to who else was in view of what was being shown .... The airline probably wouldn't allow flashing, or washroom doors being left open for obvious reasons, so ...... (ps thanks for your kind words Eye in your last SL post ... i feel forgiven) |
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| Post #3 Jul 8 2007, 08:00 AM |
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I find this unbelievable, that someone would watch porn on a computer during a flight. Too sad that the airlines can't stop someone from doing something that might affect others. What if the person then decides to "relieve" (sexually) themselves while sitting there watching it? Now the flight is 35,000 feet in the air. What can the flight attendants/pilots do at this point. Make an emergency landing at some other airport? But they can kick an unruly (? sp) kid off a plane. Amazing how the rules change. |
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| Post #4 Jul 9 2007, 10:42 AM | Calamity_Jane |
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My heart sinks at this news. I'm figuring we are talking only about policies in the US? How embarassed, I am, if so. If this were to happen to me on a plane, I would stand up and announce to all within hearing range that the idiot next to me is watching "dirty movies" and would anyone like to exchange seats with me. (Am thinking that usually there are some partying/drunk youngsters aboard that would gladly exhcange seats and not let this guy have the solitude to enjoy his entertainment.) You can bet I'd raise a ruckus with crew to be moved if that didn't work. I feel that being forced to watch (and hear!) porn was not disclosed to me when purchasing MY ticket...can't it work both ways? Perhaps I would even ask the other passengers if anyone has seen my seatmate's pictures listed on any child molester websites - freedom of speech, you know. Sheesh...maybe we'll have to "arm" ourselves on flights in case of this - pull out some really stinky cheese from our carryon's and unwrap it...paint our fingernails with stinky polish, belching repeatedly, eat garlic cloves & keep asking the lecherous seatmate questions - leaning in real close & breathing out near his nose, etc. Anyone got better ideas? :o |
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| Post #5 Jul 9 2007, 11:28 AM |
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| This reminds me when I was younger, about 9 or 10. Me & my parents went out to dinner with some of my parent's friends, and at a table close to ours, were a large group of people using obscene language left & right. My father left our table and approached their's and asked them ( but in a "telling" tone of voice) to watch their language, that there was a child at our table, not to mention that none of us wanted to hear what it was they were discussing. They immediatly apologized and we had no more problem. I wonder if that would be the case today. That group of people may very well feel entitled to act and say as they wish, and it could have escalated into an argument of sorts, and my father's infringing on their "rights". |
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| Post #6 Jul 9 2007, 01:34 PM |
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Great idea. |
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| Post #7 Jul 9 2007, 01:36 PM |
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I am afraid that the "entitlement" crowd dominates. |
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