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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Honestly, I consider somali pirates in the same category as murders and rapists - a complete waste of oxygen. Every breath they draw, they're stealing oxygen from someone. I find the idea of paying them one red cent repugnant. For one, they get their way, and for two, it only encourages them to do it some more. Of all the idea being tossed around from convoy's, to naval patrols, to research being done in high tech incapacitating sound machines, i still think the bullet is the most economical means of dealing with them. I see it in terms of a choice. Shipping companies can either pay millions in non lethal feel good research and ransom fee's, or they can pay some armed guards salaries.
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You are greatly underestimating the costs of employing a PMC to perform such duties it is pretty far from cheap.Which is why they are not employed on every single vessel and sometimes the international law of the sea prohibits such activities in the first place.Now that might seem stupid but the those international sea laws happen to prevent a lot of conflicts and other costly situations.Another issue is liability in the case there is a mistake is made if the crew or PMCs where to kill or cause damage to non pirates it would then cost them millions of dollars in liability.The latter is highly likely to occur even modern navies with all of their very high tech equipment and aircraft can not be sure what a given vessel may or may not be and there are plenty of harmless vessels out there.
I am just trying to point out that the problem is not as silly solved as it may seem and in fact many of the non lethal methods have actually proven highly effective so they are not a waste of money in fact they are often cheaper because the regular crew can often employ them.