How do you think piracy affected Spanish rule in the Americas?

Piracy is not just about business, sovereignty, and government, but war. An extraterrestrial alien who had no knowledge of the human rules of war might have a difficult

time deciding whether the violence of looting after fighting in a conflict between humans

was legitimate or not, an act of legitimate war or illegitimate, violent theft. A legal

problem exists here in that the same people may be doing the same action in one place

and in another place, and in the first place they are perhaps doing these things legally,

and in the second, illegally. The key is whether states have commissioned crews or not; if

they have, then the looting is “legitimate” and the fighting is considered “war.” if they

haven’t, then it is piracy.  

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