Should travel abroad be this sort of proposition?
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Proud Cosmopolitan
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Should travel abroad be this sort of proposition?
Should travel abroad be a "you pay your money and you take your chances" sort of proposition or should you have some sort of support / assistance if it was warranted? ( Usually from your country's embassy or consular office.).
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Re: Should travel abroad be this sort of proposition?
You should have help. The first one is a bad idea and makes people's life more uncertain. But as a hint, you should try not to make 100 threads on the same narrow subject, better just make a new post in one of your existing threads on the subject.Proud Cosmopolitan wrote:Should travel abroad be a "you pay your money and you take your chances" sort of proposition or should you have some sort of support / assistance if it was warranted? ( Usually from your country's embassy or consular office.).
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Proud Cosmopolitan
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Re: Should travel abroad be this sort of proposition?
Don't mind me for I may still kind of have ambivalent feelings on the subject for a part of me felt it should be that sort of proposition while a part of me feels that it shouldn't be.
On edit, A part of me felt travel abroad should be a "you pay your money and you take your chances" proposition out of fairness to anyone with fewer opportunities to travel abroad not to mention people such as people who were unjustifiable detention situations in repressive countries who were unlikely to get any sort of assistance with the exception being from groups such as Amnesty International if they were lucky and a part of me felt that it should not be since depending on where someone may go to they may be at an unfair disadvantage in being a so called "international" and may possibly need all the protection and support they could get.
On edit, A part of me felt travel abroad should be a "you pay your money and you take your chances" proposition out of fairness to anyone with fewer opportunities to travel abroad not to mention people such as people who were unjustifiable detention situations in repressive countries who were unlikely to get any sort of assistance with the exception being from groups such as Amnesty International if they were lucky and a part of me felt that it should not be since depending on where someone may go to they may be at an unfair disadvantage in being a so called "international" and may possibly need all the protection and support they could get.
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Proud Cosmopolitan
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Re: Should travel abroad be this sort of proposition?
I'm now leaning towards being "Meh, travel ought to be a combination of these messages or "While in Rome do like the Romans do" in terms of how you ought to ought to abide by the laws and cultural considerations of whatever country you go to and how your country's consular office or embassy "has your back" especially if you weren't out for "going to look for trouble, but trouble unfortunately had a way of catching up with you anyways."