Those downsides, according to David Cordingly are alcoholism, scurvy, torture, ship wreck, imprisonment, and public hanging. Rather than an unbiased account of pirates as self-motivated, high-seas entrepreneurs, David Cordingly has focussed on the downside of pirate life. This book certainly is filled with adventure and thrills but with each chapter I began to suspect the author was an anti-pirate propagandist. I want to be a pirate, so I hoped ‘Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates’ by David Cordingly was a career manual. I was ready to be regaled with thrilling stories that proved piracy was an excellent career choice. When I began the first chapter of Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly, I hoped I had discovered a pro-pirate book. While respectable people question the morality of pursuing theft on the high seas, my first thought is: are pirate hours reasonable? Thus, it is no surprise I like the idea of pirate as career choice. Monetary reward in addition to this experience would simply be icing on a salty cake for me. I would happily reject decency and stuffy civilization to feel the wind in my hair aboard a tall ship. If you regard yourself as too decent to engage in immoral acts for financial reward, I suggest you simply have not received the right offer yet. Each of us can be persuaded to compromise our sense of right or wrong if a reasonable sum of money or dream job is offered to us.
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