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@clacke @katzenberger @cstross @juglugs The country had four hundred years of being the Pirate Kingdom. (And to the extent that it is not now the Pirate Kingdom, that was involuntary and is not acknowledged.) The idea of admiring a big pile of loot, however gotten, is axiomatic.

Axioms never die on their own; you have to replace them, and what you replace them with has to win the inevitable fight with the incumbents.