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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
Another aspect of this is that the pirates themselves have generally treated any hostages very well, including supplying familiar foods for them if they are European and so on. The Somali's understand well enough that if they treat the hostages well then some shipping company with a big fat wallet will suck up the insurance premium and have their insurance company pay the ransom to get their people back.
If the Somali's treat the hostages like shit or kill a few of them, the pirates figure the rest of the world is likely to start sending in some special forces to give them a kick in the bollocks. It also means that the general public might start putting pressure on the various governments to actually do something serious about the piracy.
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You have hit the head of the nail. They have realize as long as they treat relatively humanely and not needlessly, they will be allowed to keep on with their piracy. So it business as normal, they know once they start carelessly killing people public opinion will turn against them, and their will be more people out their willing to kill them instead of giving up their ship, and wait for the ransom to be paid. Not only that if they start killing people needlessly, then things will be done to help Somali properly and many of the crews will no longer be so willing to go out. So they need to keep things civilized to keep status quo.