Sawzaw, there are certain rare cases where I am willing to exterminate specific people who are caught red-handed in the act of committing a violent crime. Piracy on the high seas is one of them. I consider it an act of open war, you see, and open war involves killing people.

In this case it's a privately waged open war on the part of some criminal individuals against society in general all around them. I don't have any sympathy for pirates.

Mind you, if they surrendered, I would consider imprisoning them...providing they had any time to surrender, I mean. It would all depend on the exact circumstances, wouldn't it?