There is a place in hell for people that recline in coach. The 2" of reclining doesn't help anyone's comfort that much. It's the difference between being "mostly miserable" and "pretty miserable", like the difference between lowering the air temperature in a hotel room from 79 to 78 on a summer night.
I never recline (6'1) if I have to fly coach. It's disruptive to the person behind me, either their legs or if they are trying to work on a computer. Saying "it's their right!" is just a proxy for doing the reasonable and personable thing.
It's not just the space; reclining can be the difference between being stable or not. Often when sleeping in an upright seat, my CoG is such that I'll lean left/right/forward. Reclining at even a small angle prevent this.
How can you feel entitled to tell another passenger what they can and cannot do with their seat? I don't like coach class anymore than the next person but I prefer my seat reclined so I can sleep. Sorry if that encroaches on your space but take it up with the airline not the passenger using their seat as provisioned.
That logic doesn't apply on HN because of the damage such comments do to the commons. Even if you don't owe better to the other commenter, you owe it to the community not to post like that here.
I never recline (6'1) if I have to fly coach. It's disruptive to the person behind me, either their legs or if they are trying to work on a computer. Saying "it's their right!" is just a proxy for doing the reasonable and personable thing.