• 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Piracy explicitly is not stealing.

    Piracy is attacking ships at sea and is usually done in order to rob them.

    • egonallanon@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      This is why you get a letter of marque to give you legitimacy. I’ve been letioning my government for one endlessly so I can attack Russian shipping in the balkans.

    • VivaceMoss@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      And privateering is piracy when you have the consent of a government to attack ships belonging to another government