If it is common knowledge that you will be socially punished for reclining, you are no longer being deceived when you buy the seat. The deception only takes place if you buy the seat thinking there will be no social punishment but actually there is.
I am not buying “freedom from social punishment”, I am buying “the airline provides me the benefit they advertise”. If they allow this “social punishment” to deprive me of that benefit, then now it’s not “social punishment” anymore, but action by the airline.
And if the “social punishment” does not in fact prevent me from reclining, then what you wrote is just irrelevant.
I am not buying “freedom from social punishment”, I am buying “the airline provides me the benefit they advertise”. If they allow this “social punishment” to deprive me of that benefit, then now it’s not “social punishment” anymore, but action by the airline.
And if the “social punishment” does not in fact prevent me from reclining, then what you wrote is just irrelevant.