| | I like the idea of anti-piratism.
Even Max's name: "Max Hardberger" sounds tough ... almost too tough (making me think the story is fake). I could see myself as an anti-pirate. Thinking about it imaginatively, my anti-pirate name would have to be something like Eddie the Executioner, because in each of these raids, I would not leave a single pirate alive. Of course, with no one around to tell the story, there would be no spread of my name (striking the consequent fear in the hearts of remaining pirates around the globe).
This is just as well, though. It would only help me for these pirates to be unprepared, and the prior knowledge that there is a guy out there turning the tables on pirates, with absolutely no intention on leaving any of them alive, might bolster drastic counter-measures from the pirates. I'd have a team of 12, myself included. We'd routinely assault at night by Scuba, like "Seal Team 6." Simultaneous boarding: 3 over the bow, 3 over the stern, 3 over port, and 3 over starboard. Careful of the crossfire! Each of us would have laser sighting and locating devices to know the position of the other 11 team members.
If a billionaire hired us to get "justice" (even if we fail to get his yacht back intact), we'd bring Semtex and 40mm grenade launchers, and take pictures of the "job" when finished. I can't imagine what it would do to me, to basically become a murderer-for-hire. I'd either have to remind myself that these people were most likely never going to learn to act fully human (i.e., productively), or find a way to explain international piracy as something jurisprudently punishable by death. There is no law on the high seas, but morality will follow you wherever you go. Anyway, I digress.
:-)
What would your anti-pirate name be?
Ed
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