Everyday, thousands of travellers come to a town in Alabama to sift through lost bags filled with everything from wedding dresses to medieval suits of armour.
If you have something that you can’t afford to part with, you don’t let it leave your person. It goes in your pockets, or in your carry-on.
If you have something that needs to get somewhere safely, and you can’t afford to lose it, and you can’t carry it with you onto an airplane, you don’t put it in your checked luggage - you ship it. With insurance.
Everyone either knows someone, or has had the experience themselves, of losing luggage due to an airline’s neglect. It’s a known risk.
Sure. But see…. they’ve successfully convinced you it’s your fault when your stuff gets stolen while in their possession. Your whole response is completely practical, everyone does know that. It’s still victim blaming.
If you have something that you can’t afford to part with, you don’t let it leave your person. It goes in your pockets, or in your carry-on.
If you have something that needs to get somewhere safely, and you can’t afford to lose it, and you can’t carry it with you onto an airplane, you don’t put it in your checked luggage - you ship it. With insurance.
Everyone either knows someone, or has had the experience themselves, of losing luggage due to an airline’s neglect. It’s a known risk.
Sure. But see…. they’ve successfully convinced you it’s your fault when your stuff gets stolen while in their possession. Your whole response is completely practical, everyone does know that. It’s still victim blaming.