Sorry Concho, you are clearly excusing the action of the pirate criminals by putting up an example of a provocation for these criminals, using the example as a means to equate the crime of the perpetrator and the victim, or to describe extenuating circumstances that relieve the responsibility of the perpetrators. It is classic misdirection.
You say that you’re not excusing the behavior of the pirates, but two sentences later, you actually mention that the criminality “started” with Europe.
