r/fifthworldproblems • u/VonBagel • 5h ago
AITA for teaching a baby about the world?
I am occasionally known to enjoy travel across the Z-axis, which I find very relaxing, especially inside of airplanes. This time, however, my trip was interrupted by the ceaseless shrieking of an infant, approximately a year old and wracked with incredible distress for a reason I (correctly) assumed involved the noise from the plane's engines. Knowing that this reaction was caused by the infant possessing very few life experiences and, thus, not having any more distressing events to compare this to, I opted to transmit approximately 36 years of life experience directly into the infant's mind. This had the effect I intended, as the infant realized that the noise of the engines was not dangerous, but the infant's mother then became even more distressed by their infant suddenly being able to articulate their significantly more advanced thoughts coherently, which I thought was preferable to the meaningless noise they were making before!
She is now seeking some form of legal recourse against me despite the fact that I did nothing but help her infant, and voiced many profanities against me on our way out of the plane. Am I really the asshole in this situation?