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That chain of thought of wanting to make it easy to irreversibly liquidate your assets fast for a kidnapper leads to strange places. Make sure to be rich. If y
by AgentME 9y ago
That chain of thought of wanting to make it easy to irreversibly liquidate your assets fast for a kidnapper leads to strange places.
Make sure to be rich. If you don't own cryptocurrency, make sure to buy some and convert most of your wealth to it so you can irreversibly send most of your wealth away to give in to an attacker. Make sure the keys to spend it all immediately are physically present with you and easy to access when you're kidnapped. Hope the kidnappers don't hold out for more.
If an individual is known to have done that, or the above steps are commonly followed, then kidnapping-for-ransom becomes a more common and more rational thing to do by desperate people. Doing the opposite, having people plan ahead to make it harder to please a kidnapper, makes the kidnapping-for-ransom attack less common and less rational to do. My argument is more about making it not happen to begin than making a kidnapping go pleasantly for the victim.