I'm not going to go around killing all marines for what Akainu did. Akainu killed Ace right in front of us. It was still Ace's execution though, and all the marines were meant to fight and kill all of us, but Akainu was the only one who did it by going after Ace's little brother so that Ace had no choice but to die so he could save him.
Even the rest of the marines have more honor than that.
Ace's grandfather is a marine, the hero of the marines [Practically spits the word.] and he stopped me from rescuing Ace in the middle of the war, but even he wanted to kill Akainu after what he did, and he held off Blackbeard when we needed it. Not for our sake, but it still helped.
If you kill at random you lessen yourself. They have the rule we all must die for being pirates, and I don't want to prove I'm "better" than them, but killing any marine just for being a marine lessens the impact of who and when I kill. I kill to send a message, don't fuck with my family and we will avenge our own. Killing a random marine just for being a marine isn't good enough. Most marines are weak, it's like killing an ant. And it sends the wrong message. The world already sees us as villains, but they see us as villains who never let one of our own get hurt without punishing the offender. If we killed people who didn't do that, then it stops mattering. We might just kill anyone anyway so what they do doesn't matter.
We're not the weak kind of pirates who slaughter to make a name. We kill when it will have the most impact. When it damn well means something. No, I don't question marines, and if we're in a fight I'm not going to rescue them like Ace would. [Ace is nicer than Marco.] But I'm so much stronger than most of them that killing them is pointless. Even fighting Kizaru I didn't try to kill him, because he hadn't killed any of my family. I just blocked him from hurting them because that's how strong I am.
If you have to kill without knowing if you successfully even got the right people who fucked up, you're too weak to pursue such a thing in the first place and I don't think you are.
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Even the rest of the marines have more honor than that.
Ace's grandfather is a marine, the hero of the marines [Practically spits the word.] and he stopped me from rescuing Ace in the middle of the war, but even he wanted to kill Akainu after what he did, and he held off Blackbeard when we needed it. Not for our sake, but it still helped.
If you kill at random you lessen yourself. They have the rule we all must die for being pirates, and I don't want to prove I'm "better" than them, but killing any marine just for being a marine lessens the impact of who and when I kill. I kill to send a message, don't fuck with my family and we will avenge our own. Killing a random marine just for being a marine isn't good enough. Most marines are weak, it's like killing an ant. And it sends the wrong message. The world already sees us as villains, but they see us as villains who never let one of our own get hurt without punishing the offender. If we killed people who didn't do that, then it stops mattering. We might just kill anyone anyway so what they do doesn't matter.
We're not the weak kind of pirates who slaughter to make a name. We kill when it will have the most impact. When it damn well means something. No, I don't question marines, and if we're in a fight I'm not going to rescue them like Ace would. [Ace is nicer than Marco.] But I'm so much stronger than most of them that killing them is pointless. Even fighting Kizaru I didn't try to kill him, because he hadn't killed any of my family. I just blocked him from hurting them because that's how strong I am.
If you have to kill without knowing if you successfully even got the right people who fucked up, you're too weak to pursue such a thing in the first place and I don't think you are.