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>* Paying a ransom is literally facilitating a criminal enterprise which is already illegal in almost all other aspects in most of the world.

giving your wallet when you're being robbed at the gun point falls into that category too. And if the robbery proceeds are used for buying drugs, how about charging you with drug financing?

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The differentiator is immediacy of choice. Putting a gun to your head isn’t there for your benefit of choice. It’s there so that the criminal is liable for robbery instead of a capital crime, because they could more easily kill you and take the wallet off your body.

A better analogy would be the police buying back the wallet from the robber over postorder.

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