Well, howdy there internet people? It's Bo again. So today we are going to talk about accepted

terminology, slang, a philosophical concept, pirates, and a whole bunch of other stuff, all in an attempt

to pin down what we should call those guys down south.

The philosophical concept we're going to discuss is something we're going to be revisiting.

It's something I've talked about on this channel before, but it's been more

than a year and it's worth talking about again because to be honest when it comes to base

philosophical ideas that we discuss on this channel,

this may be the most important one to me.

So I don't mind talking about it again.

Okay, so those guys down south.

The ones that got caught in Venezuela.

Are they contractors or are they mercenaries?

What's the difference between a pirate and a privateer?

Virtually indistinguishable when they're in the field, in the ocean, whatever. They engage in a lot of the same behavior. What's the real difference? One has a permission slip. One has a letter

of mark, an authorization from a state, a government, a ruler.

It's okay to engage in this behavior that is normally wrong

as long as you're doing it for me.

That's the difference.

That's the difference.

the tangible difference.

It's the difference in the terminology.

Take it a step further.

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