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Re:Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators by mcguire on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:44PM (#24640704)
If the merchants stay away, the navy won't care about the pirates.
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Re:Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators by whatshisface on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:13PM (#24641058)
Forgetting for a moment about the analogy, if you identified that an island had a really bad piracy problem, your solution would be to... send all of the merchant ships past it? That's extremely Machiavellian, to say the least.
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Re:Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators by mcguire on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:28PM (#24642712)
Perhaps. But publishing warnings and then saying, "Job done!" isn't very appealing either. (https://icc-ccs.org/index.php/piracy-reporting-centre/prone-...)
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Re:Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators by whatshisface on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:01PM (#24643111)
Hence the part about the royal navy.
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