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Infrastructural, collateral, and combat damage from actually being raided would likely outweigh the loss prevented. More than 30 people would probably die even if they won. And none of these people are creating anysignificant value anyway, because they are selected from a pre-existing and...

Yeah, but that’s a bit harder to justify, on a semi-regular basis. And a handful of people like that wouldn’t really make any difference, in the short term on a planetary scale. The losses prevented by buying off the pirates more than make up for the cost. Except morally, of course, but an...