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[mapsmikanmoney]

Maybe pirates aren't all bad.

But most of them are still cruel and shouldn't be trusted.

Comments

[onlysanechimera]

... I would have thought that went without saying. All the plundering and suchlike.

That's a quick reversal, though. Who did you meet to leave such an impression?

[plainflush]

I guess so. Uh, I've only heard stories about them, though, I've never met one.

[tenminutes]

I don't think all of anything is ever completely good or bad. It's a good lesson to learn!

[mapsmikanmoney]

These two guys- they call themselves pirates, but they helped save a village from other pirates who were destroying it. They invited me to travel with them.

[Rather, she was offered a spot on the crew, but only accepted "traveling along with."]

[mapsmikanmoney]

You're lucky. I've met a lot of them.

[mapsmikanmoney]

You have to choose to be a pirate. It's not like being born in different countries or something like that.

[tenminutes]

Not really. Maybe it's different for your pirates but there are people who don't have much choice but to turn to crime because of their circumstances. If it's that or starving on the streets, I think most people would turn to crime to try to survive.

Then on top of that, the second that you turn to doing something less than legal doesn't mean that you're magically the worst person in the world and lose all morals you know.

[onlysanechimera]

I met two of my own closest friends in less than favorable circumstances, too - they'd taken a certain item I was looking for from the bandits who'd stolen it. I've ended up traveling with them, off and on.

If your luck is anything like mine, going with them is likely to lead to a lot of very... interesting experiences.

[mapsmikanmoney]

If I'm honest, it already has.

[mapsmikanmoney]

Pirates aren't like normal thieves. I'm a thief. To be a pirate you need a crew, a ship, and all kinds of things you can't get if you're "just trying to survive" or help your family.

[tenminutes]

It sounds like pirates are just people that decided to work together to do the same thing, but on a boat.

[mapsmikanmoney]

That's not what they do at all! You don't know pirates. I do.

[tenminutes]

There used to be one on here and he wasn't half bad. Thieves aren't exactly saints either.

[mapsmikanmoney]

I'm not a saint, or a hero, or anything like that.

But there are things I won't do, and those are the things pirates do.

[tenminutes]

I'm not saying you are, but there are those who don't have a problem murdering a family even outside of pirates. Some pirates do that, but some don't. Everyone within a certain group isn't the same.