Comments on: Somali Pirates http://factonista.org/2008/11/23/somali-pirates/ Science. Humanism. Atheism. Politics. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:06:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Mags http://factonista.org/2008/11/23/somali-pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-4308 Mags Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:52:13 +0000 http://theedger.org/?p=2396#comment-4308 So..... "I am a byproduct of pop-culture pirate worship. I have fantasized about space pirates since I was a kid. I love the Pirates of the Carribean, and it is hard for me not to admire these guys on a certain level. I do not have deontological ideas about theft. I don’t share my liberterian brother and sister’s consideration for property rights as the basis of all civic virtue. Every now and then when someone gets their crap stolen, I cheer." Do you now? You are obviously not from South Africa. Getting our "crap stolen" is incidental. What we fear is death and/or maiming which in South Africa is a normal part of the process. When we hear of a friend who's been highjacked the first question is "Oh God is he all right!?" No one thinks of the belongings. Yes we also love the Great Train Robbers, Pirates of the Carribean etc...but they belong to fantasy world. So…..
“I am a byproduct of pop-culture pirate worship.
I have fantasized about space pirates since I was a kid. I love the Pirates of the Carribean, and it is hard for me not to admire these guys on a certain level.
I do not have deontological ideas about theft. I don’t share my liberterian brother and sister’s consideration for property rights as the basis of all civic virtue.
Every now and then when someone gets their crap stolen, I cheer.”

Do you now? You are obviously not from South Africa. Getting our “crap stolen” is incidental. What we fear is death and/or maiming which in South Africa is a normal part of the process. When we hear of a friend who’s been highjacked the first question is “Oh God is he all right!?” No one thinks of the belongings.

Yes we also love the Great Train Robbers, Pirates of the Carribean etc…but they belong to fantasy world.

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