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Technically, using your Kindle during take off is violating a rule and not a law. If you ignore a direct request from the Flight Attendant to turn off your Kindle and say you will not, then you are breaking a law because you are interferring with the Flight Crew.
"It is not being selfish, it is being reasonable. If they didn't see it happen it wouldn't affect them at all...several have said things like "I just can't help but worry when I see a device on." etc. That is their irrationality and not my issue. Also people who blindly follow rules just because they are rules are not "better" and have no superior "righteous" position from which to demand anything. In addition they are also hypocrites because nobody follows ALL rules and laws. If humans used a little more common sense, and minded their own business, life would be much easier. But instead you have people always telling you what you should do because someone told them they should do it. "
No, it is being selfish. Just because you, and I, have decided that said rule is silly and unnecessary does not mean that the person next to you thinks the rule is silly and unnecessary. Whether you want to admit it or not, you are the one breaking the rule. If that makes your fellow passanger enough that he or she asks you to turn off the device or rings the Flight Attendent to tell them that you are breaking the rule, you are the one in the wrong. You can argue until you are blue in the face that the person is being "irrational" and "righteous" all you want but you are still the person chosing to violate the rule. So you are putting your own needs infront of the needs of those who wish to see the rules followed.
I am selfish and read my Kindle during takeoff and landing. If my seat mate is not comfortable with it, I put it in sleep mode and read the silly magazines that they give us. I am the one breaking the rule, I am the one required to act like and adult when someone calls me on breaking the rule.
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