[unsupp0rted]

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"Well, I've got these hostages here, so I suppose the 'how' is up to you."

[mizzao]

How do I know the hostages are alive?

[unsupp0rted]

What else can you do? Err on the side of all the hostages being dead?

That’ll make for some spicy firing + public disgrace + jail time if you’re wrong.

[WalterBright]

People who take hostages aren't very smart, so being poor negotiators is par for the course.