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If the merchants stay away, the navy won't care about the pirates.

• whatshisface 6y ago
  Forgetting for a moment about the analogy, if you identified that an island had a really bad piracy problem, your solution would be to... send all of the merchant ships past it? That's extremely Machiavellian, to say the least.
  • mcguire 6y ago
    Perhaps. But publishing warnings and then saying, "Job done!" isn't very appealing either. (https://icc-ccs.org/index.php/piracy-reporting-centre/prone-areas-and-warnings https://icc-ccs.org/index.php/piracy-reporting-centre/prone-...)
    • whatshisface 6y ago
      Hence the part about the royal navy.