The Majority of All Hostage Situations ______

question 42

Multiple Choice

The majority of all hostage situations ______.

• A) are relationship-driven
• B) end in death of the hostage taker
• C) end in death of the hostage negotiator
• D) are politically motivated

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Definitions:

Ethical Imperatives

Moral obligations or commands that are viewed as universally true and guiding principles of behavior.

Comparative Reasoning

The process of using what is more familiar to make interpretations, explanations, or inferences about what is less familiar.

Ideological Reasoning

The process of thinking that begins with abstractions or generalizations that express one’s core beliefs, concepts, values, or principles and proceeds to reason top down to specific applications. Ideological reasoning is deductive and axiomatic. The argument maker takes the ideological premises on faith.