Giving in to terrorist/criminal demands should be flat out against the law for governments to do. You just don't do it, because it undermines the rule of law and integrity of the government as well as the security of a nation. You don't let your country be held hostage to the insane demands of every fly-by-night…

You assume the person kidnapping and threatening to murder someone is in turn honest enough to follow through on whatever 'promises' they make. The odds of the person dying are exactly the same whether you comply with their insane wishes or not. They will either threaten and kill, or threaten and not kill…

Except in reality the guy wouldn't have let her go, but would have killed her, chopped her up and fed her remains to another pig, all on video and posted to YouTube.

That's kind of the point. Anyone capable of nuking a city unless "indecent act X happens", or kidnapping with threat of murder….is simply not to be trusted. It assumes that you are dealing with an 'honest' mass murderer / kidnapper / terrorist / kidnapper, etc that will 'keep their solemn word' because……lying is…

Saw it last night and am of the same opinion. The premise (that the leaders of any government would concede to demands of this nature), is patently absurd. But the premise of, "We are a media obsessed voyeur culture willing and able to shunt aside our everyday morals and sense of decency to consume the most debased of…