Why Do People Become Pirates?

Many fishermen often choose to be pirate.

Many people who choose to come pirates do so because they don’t have any other option. Often, they work as fisherman. Previously, they would use small boats to catch fish, would then would be sold at the market to either locals or exporters.

Over time, the international fishing industry has boomed, including the use of ‘trawling’ - using a large boat and net to scrape up everything they can in the ocean they travel over, and then throwing back the waste and keeping the fish.

This has two effects:

These large companies can catch far more fish than local fishermen, and can sell them at a cheaper price so the fishermen don’t get any business; and

2.

1. Trawling destroys the natural eco-system meaning that far less fish have an education so they can t get a new job. Given this, they turn to piracy for survival.

Trawling can affect local fishermen and ecosystem.

Sometimes, people turn to piracy at of desperation because their government has failed to provide support from them after they have lost their jobs to an increasingly globalised fishing industry.

Do you think it’s morally justified for fishermen to steal from others, including large companies transporting cargo, when those companies are the reason the fishermen lost their jobs?