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> The story is old, but at the time written, anyone would be a hero for maiming, or killing a pirate. I’m going to contest this. Peter Pan first appeared in 19

> The story is old, but at the time written, anyone would be a hero for maiming, or killing a pirate. I’m going to contest this. Peter Pan first appeared in 1902[1], by which time the romanticization of pirates was well under way. The Pirates of Penzance, for example, debuted in 1879[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_White_Bird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_White_Bird [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirates_of_Penzance

b112 3y ago
People write movies about scummy, murdering, thieving, amoral gangsters too, going into great detail about their "humanity". So? This doesn't mean they're good people, and that 120+ years ago they wouldn't be put to death. Anyone killing a murdering, scummy gangster would be a hero. Just because someone writes a nice fictional comedy story about a scum of the Earth group of pirates, doesn't mean that all pirates are OK. Ask the villagers that get raped, murdered, and killed by pirates what they think. And yes, that's in parts of the world today too.