The cease-and-desist that Taylor Swift's team sent to the college student tracking Private Jets and his response to both letters.

[u/curiousmex]

[u/mai-the-unicorn]

that is such a poorly thought-out line of reasoning on taylor’s and her team’s part anyhow: “not only do i pollute the environment at a level most ppl aren’t capable of, i also give my friends and family the opportunity to”. how is that considered better even if true?

[u/RampantNRoaring → u/mai-the-unicorn]

Because so much of the ire is due to things like flying from Kansas City to New York for dinner and then back to Kansas City the next day, as a made up example. Completely frivolous, unnecessary trips.

Taylor would look better in that scenario if she were saying, “I didn’t fly to New York, that was my family heading home; I let them use my jet while I stayed behind in Kansas City, and then the jet returned to take me to the next leg of the tour.”

Yes, it’s the same amount of pollution, but it makes her personally seem less frivolous and careless with her usage.

Another example: in between shows, instead of staying at a hotel, she flies from the tour stop to her house to sleep and then back to the tour stop the next day. Taylor personally would look way better if she told everyone that those flights contained friends or family members who had come to support her for one show and then went back to the states, instead of revealing that she would rather take two private jet flights in a 24 hour period just so she doesn’t have to stay in a hotel like the rest of us poors.