Alicorn comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 29 March 2012 05:37:10PM * 1 point [-]

They are a paramilitary organisation with government support.

This also applies to my paradigm of "pirate".

You might be thinking of privateers.

Comment author: thomblake 29 March 2012 06:42:22PM 3 points [-]

Yes. There was a very blurry distinction between the two while England wanted to encourage piracy against France.