deducted to provide monetary compensation to those injured during battle. Eachinjury carried a different monetary value. An uncivilized society does not provide monetarycompensation for an injury received on duty. This form of compensation was not prevalent in theso called civilized society of the time. Sure, in todays civilized society, we have a workerscompensation structure and live under the sprite of democracy but who is to say we did not adoptit from the pirates. The pirates may have been outlaws, but they were one step ahead of the restof the world within governing their own societies. The way in which the pirate communitygoverned their society is an example of pirate human decency....
