eli5 what was the point of the skull and bones pirate flag? why would you give away that you are a pirate?
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Fear. and they didn’t ALWAYS fly the skull and bones. Because yea that would be dumb and give them away.
Instead they would fly a different false flag. And then when they got close to a ship they wanted to attack, they would fly the skull and cross bones. But this was actually meant to scare the ship/crew into just giving up. If you saw the skull and cross bones and gave up, then sure the pirates would come and take your stuff, but they’d let you live and possibly even go free after they took your valuables.
But if you made them actually chase you down and fight you, there was no such idea that they wouldn’t attack and possibly kill you.
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