There are people who will have this as an immediate and reflexive reaction, unfortunately.
For all the Hollywood idiocy glamorizing them, high-seas pirates are one of the few classes of people that ought to be immediately killed on positive identification that they are, in fact, pirates. They’re NOT happy-go-lucky, lovable scamps.
Hollywood could afford to do that because no pirate has dared tangle with a US vessel for over 200 years. Well yo ho ho and a bottle of hopenchange, they’re back.