That's very easy to say from a highly ordered country with effective law enforcement and a strong tradition of low violence. Other countries, much less so. Ther

That's very easy to say from a highly ordered country with effective law enforcement and a strong tradition of low violence. Other countries, much less so. There are many in the world (I live in one) where if you're "asked" for a ransom payment because a family member was kidnapped or as a threat against your business being burned to the ground, your only even partly decent chance of escaping the situation in a way that minimizes tragedy is to simply pay. Anything else, including going to the thoroughly useless, corrupt police, will mean that whoever you love enough to sell your house for will die, or something you spent years building is destroyed. Avoiding future incidents is something you'll think carefully about afterward, but paying is the first and usually only choice for saving a life or property. Ponder that in the context of how you would feel with your own family before giving flippant, simplistic absolutisms.