TangerineSteve17
Well-Known Member
intheknow! said:France, Turkey, Italy and Germany have paid ransoms and had their hostages freed. UK Gov could have done the same but they chose not to.
Whilst regrettable, all that would happen if ransoms were to be paid, would be a "how much is a life worth" crisis.
Apart from highlighting yourselves as "payers" therefore making your citizens a target, you'd get this scenario.
Say we paid £100,000 for the first hostage. They'd ask for £1 million for the next. And then the next?
I don't know of an answer to that because a line would be eventually be drawn and of course, they'd be killed.