talk like a ship hijacker day

[rone]

All i can say on the subject is, "Avast."  Which, if you look it up, means "stop".

I wonder why popular culture embraces thieves, assassins, and slavers (pirates, ninjas, and pimps) and raises them to a level of cool.

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[vajrabot.livejournal.com]

>I wonder why popular culture embraces thieves, assassins, and slavers (pirates, ninjas, and pimps) and raises them to a level of cool.

Because they freely, proudly, do the sorts of things most people wish they could do but don't because of morality and fear of punishment. It also helps that the victims are people who are historically or sociologically remote enough from the pretenders that they don't have to feel any empathy for them. It's easier to pretend to be a ninja, whose victims were who-knows-what-sort-of-ancient-asian-people than a Nazi whose victims were the sorts of people we know and interact with.

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

Weird, I didn't see your comment, or those that followed. But I think it's amusing a bunch of us all independently came to a group decision that it's the freedom that's cool.