White House repeatedly threatened James Foley's mother with prosecution if she paid a ransom to free her son. http://abcnews.go.com/International/government-threatened-foley-family-ransom-payments-mother-slain/story?id=25453963 …
@normative @onekade @trevortimm Even if true, which I doubt, it would be a totally justifiable trade-off for saving a human life.
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@mtracey@onekade@trevortimm You're not "saving a life," you're just changing the identity of the victims & making them more numerous. -
@normative@onekade@trevortimm No, paying money in exchange for the freeing of a hostage would in fact be "saving a life." - 6 more replies
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