[BluH2o]

It’s like saying that if you get mugged, you shouldn’t have been out on the street in the first place. That’s idiotic, and all blaming the victim does is embolden the criminals.

Read my response again and focus on the part where they deliberately left the relative safety of the small flotilla that had been organized (by fellow yachtsmen) to ensure some degree of a safe passage thru these dangerous waters. That was incredibly stupid on their part, actions have consequences, and when people act in a stupid & irresponsible manner they should expect to deal with the results of their action. Not put others in harms way to extricate them from a situation that could have been avoided.

[livius]

You’re advocating that everybody tailor their lives to thugs. They were actually not in that dangerous a place and they had sailed there before. These pirates now go as far as 600 miles out to sea - because they’ve been emboldened by people with attitudes like yours.

[PapaBear3625]

Read my response again and focus on the part where they deliberately left the relative safety of the small flotilla that had been organized (by fellow yachtsmen) to ensure some degree of a safe passage thru these dangerous waters. That was incredibly stupid on their part,

Were any of the vessels in the flotilla armed? If not, what's the point?

Old Russian saying: "what does the wolf care how many sheep there be?"