You’re advocating that everybody tailor their lives to thugs. They were actually not in that dangerous a place and they had sailed there before. These pirates now go as far as 600 miles out to sea - because they’ve been emboldened by people with attitudes like yours.
I will try to be very patient with you livius ... I’m an experienced off shore sailor. I’ve made two trans-Atlantics on a 15 meter yacht, actually eight trans-Atlantics if you count my six crossings on U.S. Navy vessels. I’ve sailed off shore to Bermuda from the U.S. in the Newport - Bermuda race as well. Not to mention extensive coastal sailing, primarily off the U.S. east coast.
The crew of the Quest had not sailed in these waters before, there decision to go it alone (breaking away from the flotilla arranged by fellow yachtsmen traveling the same dangerous waters for security purposes) was shear folly. Stupidity has consequences and they payed the price with their lives.