pirates ... what makes a pirate?

[joggerjayne]

Food for thought.

A bunch of people, who seem to be a law unto themselves, have seized an oil tanker carrying $100m of crude oil. Clearly they are illegal pirates.

So if another bunch of people, who also seem to be a law unto themselves, seize an entire country, along with 112, billion barrels of oil ... what does that make them?

[legendis.god]

you cant be a pirate and steal or coquer a country


thats a conqueror



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[joggerjayne]

Yes you can.

[annie0000]

Aren't pirates technically only pirates if the rob things at sea? I mean we wouldn't class a shoplifter as a pirate - unless he had a peg leg, parrot and eyepatch and was running out of woolies singing a sea shanty.