Why do we pay ransom to pirates instead of just killing or arresting them after they let the hostages go? Won’t paying them just make them keep stealing ships and holding them hostage?
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Yeh this is the choice faced basically, and different countries choose different options. As I understand the I think France for example will pay for french citizens, but here in the UK we don’t. The thinking being that in doing so you make it more likely for your citizens to be targeted in the future, and trying to track down and kill the hostage takers is a better options (although this is rarely possible in practise)
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