How did you get into my mind, why did you stay?
I'm not sure where this is taking you, or me for that matter.
I only know that long after I'm only here in cyberspace and my ashes have washed ashore on the dead man's chest, these random rantings will suck in some unsuspecting cybernaught who will get trapped in a discussion with a sailor long since gone to the place where pirates go after the cannon balls sink and the smoke clears....to drink the rum and ruminate over their deeds........sanctioned in the name of all that is good and holy......for the wealth and well being of the Crown then in season.
The Cybernaught a post-moderne pirate looking for some meaningful booty or bounty to expropriate and make his/her own, will argue the fine points of right and might, hoping beyond hope to negotiate the intersection where the road to Armegeddon branches off to hell.
If you kill in the name of the universal creative force, eliminating evil, will you become a force for good or evil? If you don't, will you contribute to greater evil?
"A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in public museums, just as an instument of torture is now, and people will be astonised how such a thing could have been." Victor Hugo
So, my brother in arms, wander in to the rooms without walls, and take up the cause of waging the war on evil, where the self-righteous eliminate without pity those whom the Crowns have decided must die, for their own good. To do less is to walk unaccompanied to the guillotine, to pull the trip wire on your own gallows. Piracy happens when you stop the economics of the group that struggles to establish and maintain dominance over all the other estates....and you accept the evil as a necessary evil in order to make the world a better place.
So keep your powder dry, your wit about you and wander forth into the fray.