We are all pirates

I was thinking about my post about why many of us like Pirate-related entertainment.  Pirates get to live by their own rules, in a survival-of-the-fittest sort of way.  They have freedom from the routine of a more civilized society.  Much of our world is basically run by those same principles.  Think about it - war, wall street, business, sports -- heck even politics-- are all just a different reason for piracy behavior on a grander scale.
  We all are pirates to some degree!

There's often a Jimmy Buffet song in my head:

"Yes I am a pirate

Two hundred years too late

The cannons don't thunder

There's nothing to plunder

I'm an over forty victim of fate "