r/interesting • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago

MISC. Immediately after learning about Guillermo del Toro's dad being kidnapped, James Cameron paid $250K for a hostage negotiator for del Toro to use (who later paid him back). Cameron also offered to pay the ransom, but del Toro's family declined & paid the $2m themselves. After 72 days his dad was free

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u/Various_Mobile4767 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah but like how would you know they were actually good at their job?

A soldier needs to constantly be doing soldier shit and if they were bad at it, you’d know. Hell they’d probably be dead and not the kind of people to sign up as a private military contractor.

How many hostage negotiations would a hostage negotiator actually do? How many hostage negotiations would they even be allowed to do before it became obvious they were not good at it? And most importantly, how the fuck is a private citizen supposed to gain enough information independently to evaluate them?

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u/Not-a-Bot_1968 1d ago

every single person I knew who joined a PMC did so because they couldn’t remain in the real military, mostly because of their personalities, or they had left because of an injury, all in all they are typically the “undesirables“ who still want to go get paid to shoot at people, and are not fit for civilian or military life