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Imagine making it illegal to hand over your wallet to a mugger holding a gun to you. All you are doing is incentivizing companies to not report these attacks.

• freshair 5y ago
  If the mugger isn't bluffing, then he'll get your money one way or the other. This makes it different from paying ransoms. Furthermore, a corporation's bottom line is not truly comparable to a human life. However it is my understanding that paying ransoms to save human lives is technically illegal to. If paying a ransom to save your family member's life is illegal, then corporations paying ransoms to protect their finances should certainly be illegal.
  • FDSGSG 5y ago
    >However it is my understanding that paying ransoms to save human lives is technically illegal to You are wrong.
    • freshair 5y ago
      I did some more research and it seems I am substantially correct; paying a ransom to a terrorist organization is illegal.
      • FDSGSG 5y ago
        Substantially correct? Paying ransoms is legal except for a very limited set of payment recipients.
• mrtesthah 5y ago
  It would in incentivize more people to fight back rather than acquiesce, and therefore likely reduce the number of muggings.
• motbob 5y ago
  Not a good analogy, for two reasons. First, workers who don't have equity in a company don't really have a gun to their head even if the existence of the company is at risk. The real "gun to the head" is the threat of jail time. Second, it has historically been difficult to convince dozens of people to coordinate with each other and do something illegal for little to no personal gain.