If any changes should be made in those laws, it should be to forbid the use of privateers and navies to sieze enemy merchant ships and blockade coasts and make such practices as illegal as piracy is, not to make piracy as legal as those practices are now. And it is more wrong and evil still, and totally illegal, for private individuals to become pirates and attack merchant ships of all countries. It is even more wrong and evil, though still legal in some countries, for a country to commission civilian privateers, undisciplined and more likely to commit atrocities for profit, to attack the merchant shipping of countries they are a war with. Discouraging and interrupting that trade is bad for hte world as a whole.īecause of the vital importance of nautical trade to keep people alive, it is wrong and evil, though legal, when naval forces of a country sieze merchant ships of countries they are at war with and blockade their coasts. Nautical trade has been an important part of the world's economy for millennia, and in recent centuries it has become more and more vital for civilization.
Piracy is not evil because it is illegal, it is illegal because it is evil. Such actions are crimes at sea as well as on land for good reasons. Piracy is robbery at sea, always with the threat of violence (makng terroristic threats) and often with actual violence (assault, murder, etc.). All pirates are evil criminals and thus are villains in any stories they are in, even the stories which make them protagonists. So Peter Pan can be interpreted as being evil, and so one of the villains in Peter Pan, without making every other character better than they are without making them good enough to not be villains.Ĭaptain Hook was a pirate. Being better than someone else doesn't make someone good to be good someone has to pass the minimum standards for goodness, even if they are many times better than the more evil persons around them. And of course when the evil that they do is not so obvious but requires some thought to realize that innate sense doesn't work so well. Most people have an innate sense of right and wrong and can easily tell when someone else is doing something obviously bad to them, and less easily tell when they are doing something obviusly bad to someone else. I disagree that Captain Hook could ever not be a villain.
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