MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: COME ONNNNNNNN! :<

> 1. Quit feeding the animals. Pay not one more ransom. No money = no pirate. Yes, some
> innocent hostages will suffer... but the number will be few compared to the many over
> time... and if I were captured with a zip-tie around my necrosing nuts locked in a
> freezer... at that point a death during a failed rescue beats a life of tortured
> agony for crying out loud.

It's easy to say this when there is just about zero chance that you or anyone you know is going to end up in this situation. If you're some rich dude who owns yachts, and your family or whoever is captured, and you can make the whole situation go away for less than what you'll spend on the new Maserati... You're not going to be able to tell someone like that not to pay the ransom.

> 2. Kill the fuckers. They hide out in a lawless governless land... so what are we
> worried about? Invading a soveriegn country? They have no soverign government. Fuck
> 'em. Two words... Tomahawk Missile.

We *have* killed them, when they can be found. Again, it's easier said than done. These guys are always on the move and the ocean is a big place. When they're on land, they hide out in the civilian population. Where do we shoot the Tomahawk missile? Just systematically wipe out the population of Somalia, to get at a few pirates? The era when military might was a viable solution to most problems ended right around the time the USSR collapsed. The world today is just more complicated.