Atlas Shrugged: The Highwayman<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cFinally a pirate, my kind of villain!\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cOh no, sorry, I\u2019m actually a hero.\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cOh I don\u2019t think so, you\u2019re a pirate with a silly name, obviously you\u2019re a villain. Ragnar Danneskjold is really obviously a villain\u2019s name but I mean even past that you\u2019re a pirate, man!\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cOh no, I\u2019m a noble pirate! I give away all my ill-gotten gains and only strike the high seas to turn the villains\u2019 own weapons against them!\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cSo you\u2019ve got kind of a\u2026 Robin Hood thing going on?\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cNo, explicitly not as I openly compare myself to Robin Hood and call myself a reverse Robin Hood, as I steal from the poor and give to the rich.\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cReverse Robin Hood\u2026 but\u2026 I mean c\u2019mon, Robin Hood is a hero, if you reverse Robin Hood you get a villain. I mean that even sounds like some kind of lame gimmick villain! Seriously I am pretty sure at some point I have employed a guy who was Reverse Robin Hood.\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cNah, me and all my buddies all agree that Robin Hood is really a villain, even if the rest of the world disagrees with us.\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cAnd you never thought maybe that you guys were the villains when you disagree with the ENTIRE WORLD?\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cNope! Definitely heroes. Besides I have never robbed a private ship or a military ship, just those evil government ships transporting aid to the underprivileged. Also maybe I did sink some private ships but from this point on in the story we\u2019re pretending it\u2019s never happened.\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cOkay putting aside the\u2026 look I\u2019m going to be generous and put aside the bit about relief ships being evil here and that\u2019s a pretty big put aside\u2026 how is it possible that you haven\u2019t engaged military ships? Wouldn\u2019t the military put escorts on the ships you\u2019re attacking?\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cApparently not! Or I\u2019m too good for them or something, look I do all my work off in the shadows so you don\u2019t have to worry about logistics.\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cWell that brings up another good point. I mean, don\u2019t you have an operational overhead as a pirate?\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cI mean, you have a crew and a naval vessel capable of engaging in piracy, attacking and seizing ships. Which means you need to at least provide subsistence wage for your crew or they starve to death. And trust me, I\u2019ve bought a lot of ships from Destro, it\u2019s not like those things come cheap and are operated cheaply. Fuel costs and weapon systems are expensive!\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cWell fuel-wise, maybe I have a magic engine? I mean we have a magic engine that vaguely provides super cheap unlimited power or something so I might have those. Weapons um\u2026 Magic engine maybe? And I pay for everything else in gold bars.\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cBut as an international pirate\/smuggler wouldn\u2019t it make more sense to deal in local trade goods and commodities than gold, as they will appreciate in value when shipped between countries while gold will always have a fixed value no matter where you carry it in the world?\u201d
\nRagnar:<\/b> \u201cHey, who\u2019s the capitalist super hero here, you or me?\u201d
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure neither of us is!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Originally posted on Atlas Shrugged: The Highwayman. Cobra Commander: \u201cFinally a pirate, my kind of villain!\u201d Ragnar: \u201cOh no, sorry, I\u2019m actually a hero.\u201d Cobra Commander: \u201cOh I don\u2019t think so, you\u2019re a pirate with a silly name, obviously you\u2019re a villain. Ragnar Danneskjold is really obviously a villain\u2019s name but I mean even past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1308,"featured_media":0,"parent":9712,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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