"Well..." Tom hesitated. For how pragmatic he was, he wasn't naive enough to believe his approach to life would be shared by everyone else in the family. 'And there is a bit of truth in what they said,' he thought, biting his lips due to this unexpected problem.
"How about we divide your luggage amongst others?" Marvin proposed, noticing Tom's distress. "This way, you won't be just a dead weight," he added, clearly hoping to infuriate those people.
After all, as counterproductive as it was to operate with someone emotional, it was also far easier to make them do stuff one wanted.