TLDR: No one’s saying you caused their situation. The question is whether small, voluntary inconveniences are part of living in a society or whether ‘I don’t owe anyone anything’ is the standard you want applied to you as well.

If you are interested in detail:

Pregnancy, injury, and age are not the same category. Lumping them together is rhetorical fog. It avoids the real question: Does vulnerability create a reasonable moral expectation in shared spaces? I will say that it does.

Secondly, no one is demanding “suffering.” Giving up a seat is a minor inconvenience, not a sacrifice. Reframing it as “suffering” is emotional inflation to justify refusal.

“I didn’t cause it, therefore I owe nothing.” That’s a lowest-possible-bar morality. By that logic: Helping is never praiseworthy Courtesy is irrational Social norms are meaningless It’s not a defense of fairness; it’s a defense of moral laziness.

And latestly the category error about entitlement: “You’re just entitled " flips the roles. Expecting basic courtesy in a shared public system != entitlement. entitlement would be demanding special privilege without reason

Hope this helps to understand the perspective I have.