Wikipedia provides a list of definitions for piracy that I find very enlightening. Take a moment to look through these descriptions and see if these match the values you hope to instill in your children?
"Modern definitions of piracy include the following acts:
- Boarding without permission.
- Extortion
- Hostage taking
- Kidnapping of people for ransom
- Murder
- Robbery and seizure of items or the ship
- Sabotage resulting in the ship subsequently sinking
- Shipwrecking done intentionally to a ship"
Psalms 62:10- "Trust not in oppression, and hope not vainly in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them."
Exodus 20:15- "Thou shall not steal"
This picture is of a puzzle designed for children between the ages of -. Do you see the smiles and cheerful demeanor of pirates who are about to send an innocent man to his death? I can't imagine any other murder scene on it? Would you buy a puzzle with a gunman getting ready to shoot another person in the head?
Title 18 U.S.C. § 1651 states:
Whoever, on the high seas, commits the crime of piracy as defined by the law of nations, and is afterwards brought into or found in the United States, shall be imprisoned for life.
