The Nazis who were trying to kill my Daddy back during WWII were about the age of the pirates, and I’m glad they didn’t succeed.
I saw a segment on the History channel about a unit that got into a battle with a German unit composed of teenage fighters. It took a couple of hours for the Americans to subdue the Germans, and the American commander lost several of his men in the battle. After the battle, the American commander tied up the adult commander of the teenagers. And then he personally clubbed him to death.
And there was another segment about a Nazi SS member who was enthusiastically and sadistically violent in his treatment of concentration camp prisoners. And oops, he was a TEENAGER!
Less we forget, many of the Khmer Rouge who persecuted their own people were armed TEENAGERS!