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Honestly, in a real hostage takers situation, you negotiate and negotiate so much they lose the will to hold. Here is an interesting book about it, https://ww
by sremani 8y ago
Honestly, in a real hostage takers situation, you negotiate and negotiate so much they lose the will to hold.
Here is an interesting book about it,
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062872303/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1547675465&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De...
So your nugget of wisdom is actually bad advice in real world, wrong analogy when arguing about separation of powers and checks and balances.
- kingofpandora 8y agoSerious comment: I assume this advice holds when the hostage taker has no means of escape but perhaps is less applicable when their location is not known? In the latter case, negotiation is probably still a good option but for different reasons.
- atomi 8y agoCapitulating would be a bad precedent.
- hellisothers 8y agoI initially read that as “bad president”