Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160125035940/@comment-25936766-20170421003752

Arkantos95 wrote: Plus, as long as the pirates don't feel guilty about what they're doing, why would they themselves have to deal with massive negativity? Because it's not just their own negativity that they have to deal with, it's the negativity of anyone taken hostage, the negativity created during the assaults, and the fact that after being found by Grimm the Grimm won't necesarily stop giving chase.

I mean, I can understand fucking off and getting away from their victims in a hurry, but not why just being a pirate means you seep negatitivy. Life at sea is not nice and dandy. If something happens to you, help is far away and any kind of resource on the ship is limited. Pirates are brutes by nature, so it's extremely unlikely that there would be profesional medical help on board unless they were taken hostage. And if they were taken hostage, that leads to negativity and thus Grimm.

You lost a leg? Deal with it. You got a disease? Deal with it. Medicine? Limited. Someone wants to kill you? Good luck. The latter was particularly common. Even "Captains" were only leaders in battle; out of battles they could, and were indeed, thrown off-board or even killed for incompetency or any other reasons.

Pirates are free men, and that means Anarchy. If they had any sort of unity, it was in the form of a very crude democracy.

Real pirates were brutish. They looted, they killed, they tortured, they raped, they enslaved. More often than not, for funsies instead of pragmatism, because they are free men. There's a reason Pirates got the designation of "Enemies of the human race" during their prime.

The best (morally) Pirates would maybe not kill you, but would indeed leave you stranded in the middle of the oceanic nowhere.

There's the idea of "Romantic Rogue" Pirates, popular during the Romanticism, but that's a lie by nature. Those lean more towards Privateers than real Pirates.

Current Pirates, the real kind, are more interested in Money than lives and thus resort more to extortion and similar stuff, but those never appear in fiction except for cases so specific they stand out like a sore thumb.