Was just watching a show, and terrorists demanded a very well off country that they pay a STAGGERING sum of £100,000,000.
The government had an hour to do it OR ELSE.
Just thinking about the fact that their decision is based off of lives lost, and how little money that is to them, let alone the most rich, and how real of a situation is just disgusting.
Just wanted to vent this out and maybe talk about other shit. What do we have?
Not negotiating with kidnappers is a game-theory decision. It’s not about whether the ransom is a lot of money or not - it’s about what it incentivizes. If you pay, you’re sending a clear signal that there’s money to be made from kidnappings, and you’re going to see more of them. If you refuse to pay, yeah, you risk the current hostages dying, but you’re way less likely to face the same situation again - because anyone thinking about grabbing someone for ransom knows you didn’t pay the last guy who tried it either.
I get that, but this isn’t a novel situation.