system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Is it true that America does not negotiate with terrorists? Why not? 

This was a question my little brother asked me after watching The Dark Night Rises.
gpt
If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to want a glass of milk.

If you negotiate with terrorists, it feeds the cycle that people can manipulate you by being terrorists.  Hence you get more terrorists.