Socializing the Cost of Risky Adventures

In gaps between hard-news stories, TV networks remind us of the missionaries and explorers detained by despotic regimes. Naive adventurers who "lose track of their direction" near hostile countries may expect polite guidance toward home, but they are sometimes held for political or financial ransom. Missionaries who preach in belligerent lands might feel a gush of righteousness, but they may also be sentenced to hard time. Adventurers and missionaries routinely ask for government help in obtaining their release, as if it is their right to impose that cost and sacrifice on American taxpayers.

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