Depends on the pirate for sure. And it’s all muddled by the fact that each side was trying to make their own pirates into heroes and the other side’s into villains.
ArbereshDoqetejete on
My brother in chirst two of the most famous pirate theme franchieses depict them as world saving heros.
Soft_Theory_8209 on
It depended on the pirates in particular, some would prefer to just rob you than kill you, brothers would happily partake in mass plunders, rape, and pillaging.
It could be both. Most of them were savages not all
Achilles11970765467 on
Wildly inaccurate. Kinda like the ridiculous popular Tumblr take that pirates were anti slavery when the vast overwhelming majority of “pirates” that have ever existed were very active slave traders. The fact that SOME pirates (especially buccaneers in the Caribbean) happened to be escaped slaves doesn’t do anything to change that.
cat_of_doom2 on
Usually… if they got any sort of resistance they’d usually gut people alive in front of all the crew to make an example of them
PanchoxxLocoxx on
Waiting for people un 2100 to say this about the cartel
Josh12345_ on
Both are true.
GrumpyHebrew on
Fights caused wounds (which cost the crew money), so pirates wanted surrenders not fights. The threat that if a crew fought they would be gruesomely tortured constituted a very strong incentive to surrender. It was in the pirates’ interest to make sure the threat was known and believed by potential victims.
Future_Visit_5184 on
Not really the important bit but I doubt the other guy would just go “No problem” lol
Theres a lot of variance. The most correct answer is “both of these were true sometimes”
AwfulUsername123 on
Pirates still exist. Anyone who thinks they’re honorable people is welcome to go meet them.
Koffieslikker on
Are you mental? Never heard of Barbary pirates? That’s just one example
nuuudy on
as accurate as saying medieval knights were honorable
and as accurate as saying medieval knights were bloodthirsty maniacs
Think about it logically. You went into piracy because of poverty. Does a thief WANT to murder his victim? Eh, probably mostly not. They’d likely prefer if you just surrendered. BUT murders definitely did happen. So did sadistic people. So did honorable people. So did morally gray people
I lean mostly towards – they wanted you to surrender. Fight means wounds and/or dying. No one wants that
Alakazing on
haha uhh don’t look up the barbary pirates then
Supersteve1233 on
It depends on whether the sailors fought back against the pirates or just let them take the stuff. If they fought back, pirates would often brutally kill and/or torture the crew, to send a message: “If you fight back against us you WILL suffer.” If they didn’t fight back, they would leave them be. The whole idea was to incentivize giving over your stuff instead of fighting back, because if your enemies fought back it would be a lot more expensive for pirates, especially because repairing everything and getting good medical care was a lot harder when you were a bunch of criminals and fugitives.
Fresh-Ice-2635 on
Talk about cherry picking examples
prestieteste on
I mean in the Caribbean sure but it’s even crazy the more you look at piracy on a global scale. The English age of Pirates is kind of tame when it comes to SE Asian Pirate Armadas and Barbary Slave ships taking Christians to North Africa to sell off.
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
Some pirates were definitely the first, and most intentionally spread rumors that they were the first in order to frighten crews into surrender
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Both are true
Dunno, CGP Grey said that both are true
Depends on the pirate for sure. And it’s all muddled by the fact that each side was trying to make their own pirates into heroes and the other side’s into villains.
My brother in chirst two of the most famous pirate theme franchieses depict them as world saving heros.
It depended on the pirates in particular, some would prefer to just rob you than kill you, brothers would happily partake in mass plunders, rape, and pillaging.
Also, I and others talked about this meme and it’s subject matter a while back on this post, if you’re curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/s/BBi1HLJwvh
It could be both. Most of them were savages not all
Wildly inaccurate. Kinda like the ridiculous popular Tumblr take that pirates were anti slavery when the vast overwhelming majority of “pirates” that have ever existed were very active slave traders. The fact that SOME pirates (especially buccaneers in the Caribbean) happened to be escaped slaves doesn’t do anything to change that.
Usually… if they got any sort of resistance they’d usually gut people alive in front of all the crew to make an example of them
Waiting for people un 2100 to say this about the cartel
Both are true.
Fights caused wounds (which cost the crew money), so pirates wanted surrenders not fights. The threat that if a crew fought they would be gruesomely tortured constituted a very strong incentive to surrender. It was in the pirates’ interest to make sure the threat was known and believed by potential victims.
Not really the important bit but I doubt the other guy would just go “No problem” lol
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Theres a lot of variance. The most correct answer is “both of these were true sometimes”
Pirates still exist. Anyone who thinks they’re honorable people is welcome to go meet them.
Are you mental? Never heard of Barbary pirates? That’s just one example
as accurate as saying medieval knights were honorable
and as accurate as saying medieval knights were bloodthirsty maniacs
Think about it logically. You went into piracy because of poverty. Does a thief WANT to murder his victim? Eh, probably mostly not. They’d likely prefer if you just surrendered. BUT murders definitely did happen. So did sadistic people. So did honorable people. So did morally gray people
I lean mostly towards – they wanted you to surrender. Fight means wounds and/or dying. No one wants that
haha uhh don’t look up the barbary pirates then
It depends on whether the sailors fought back against the pirates or just let them take the stuff. If they fought back, pirates would often brutally kill and/or torture the crew, to send a message: “If you fight back against us you WILL suffer.” If they didn’t fight back, they would leave them be. The whole idea was to incentivize giving over your stuff instead of fighting back, because if your enemies fought back it would be a lot more expensive for pirates, especially because repairing everything and getting good medical care was a lot harder when you were a bunch of criminals and fugitives.
Talk about cherry picking examples
I mean in the Caribbean sure but it’s even crazy the more you look at piracy on a global scale. The English age of Pirates is kind of tame when it comes to SE Asian Pirate Armadas and Barbary Slave ships taking Christians to North Africa to sell off.
Some pirates were definitely the first, and most intentionally spread rumors that they were the first in order to frighten crews into surrender