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They're not totally wrong though. A huge share of the goods the Caribbean pirates "stole" didn't belong to their "victims" anyway. In fact, most of it had previously been stolen from the native Americans who had been conquered and killed or extorted from slaves on the plantations. Stealing from a robber isn't stealing imho.
Another, more modern example are the pirates of Somalia, who originally were fishermen. Only when foreign ships came into their waters to steal their fish and dispose toxic waste, they began to arm themselves to "steal" their own goods back.
Disney on the other hand...
Unless they were returning the treasure to the natives, it's still stealing dude lol
Good luck bringing back a treasure to the rightful owner, when the rightful owner has been killed along with his family. Also, usually the thieves would not write "stolen from person X in Y" on their gold bars.
And let's not forget that a non-negligible part of the pirates were in fact former slaves that either fled on their own or have been freed directly by other pirates. So they basically fought their previous "owners".
Yeah let's not pretend they were some noble boat robin hoods they just stole what they could find it just so happened to be a lot of slave made stuff