They are robbers and murderers who live dirty, dangerous lives. Yet there is a glamour about pirates, especially pirates from long ago. I obviously feel that way too -- but I wonder why? 🤔
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Those who romanticise pirates may do so from knowing nothing of them beyond the half-truths and pure myths in novels and films - especially the tripe peddled by the latter.
The real ones then were, and the modern ones are, robbers with no qualms about also being murderers!
