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Walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.

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Pirates only want the booty.
Emperors like the booty, too, but they sometimes unite people and create governments and institutions that protect and serve the people.
If pirates or marauders do the same, they cease to be pirates and transition to empire builders. See Genghis Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!.

I'm not for emperors or dictators, but you have to realize that pretty much all civilizations, kingdoms, and empires were founded by bloody wars and conquest. Only thing worse than living in a place ruled by a government is living in a place not ruled by a government (which, not-so-oddly enough, are where the majority of pirates tend to take refuge in).
 
Hooray for the war on Ducks!

Seriously, that was pretty funny and well done, the tune is pretty catchy too.
I see this thread going places.

/lawn chair
 
Sorry, they ain't the same because Emperors and the U.S. get to write the history books, at least the ones our kids get to read, and, pirates are everyone's favorite bad guys.
 
Cute movie, but erroneous. Pirates are thugs that simply use terror all the time to perpetrate even more chaos. At least Alexander's empire was tremendously orderly...for as long as he lived anyway.

But even the Romans had a dark side, and they had a giant empire. I guess the idiots who made this film expect humanity to be this peaceful species, and anything short of their pathetic ideals makes you a war criminal. :roll:

Bunch of short sighted, narrow minded bigots.
 
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