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No, I totally agree with you, I guess I would say, rather than the recliner having a right, neither clearly has a right to either not be reclined on or recline.
That said, I do think you have the right to not be reclined on when you specifically say that being reclined on will result in a non-consentual touching. Or, if a hypothetical worker with a laptop out said, "If you recline, you will break my screen" (as very nearly happened to me once when the person in front of me reclined and my screen was caught on the lip of the tray table indent) then again, you might be infringing on someone's rights. Which is obviously the best I can do. No clear right to recline, and possibly sometimes a right not to be reclined upon.
That said, I do think you have the right to not be reclined on when you specifically say that being reclined on will result in a non-consentual touching. Or, if a hypothetical worker with a laptop out said, "If you recline, you will break my screen" (as very nearly happened to me once when the person in front of me reclined and my screen was caught on the lip of the tray table indent) then again, you might be infringing on someone's rights. Which is obviously the best I can do. No clear right to recline, and possibly sometimes a right not to be reclined upon.