Status Updates From Storia generale dei pirati

"They pass'd their Time here in Dancing, and other Diversions...among the rest, they appointed a Mock-Court..to try one another for pyracy, and he that was a Criminal one Day was made Judge another."

Literal gallows humor, LOL.

“But, perhaps, if there was less Law, there might be more Justice, than in some other Courts…here, if two Persons were equally guilty of the same Fault, there was no convicting one, and bringing the other off, by any Quirk or turn of Law…Besides, in crimes of this nature, Men bred up to the sea, must be more knowing…than others more learned in the Law”

This is reminding me of that Spider-Man meme:
Look, a ship! Run up the 🏴‍☠️ ! Wait, you guys are pirates too? Huh. Cool. Oops, we’re both being attacked and…MORE pirates?! OK, this is getting silly…but on the bright side, we now have enough guys to attack that fort!
😂