User blog comment:DarkSkullPirates/Different Views/@comment-3213092-20121004150722

It's all in the reader's mind. Mostly goes to who is more badass than the other.

Example: People like Akainu for being a badass and for killing Ace. They automatically like Akainu and not the Marines overall, cause the same person might like a different cool character(i.e Kid, who is a pirate).

I don't think people follow good or evil, they just like what they find strong and badass.

Now inside One Piece, only the Straw Hats are different from the others (and the Whitebeard Pirates who didn't care at all). They don't go killing people and steal their money, they do the opposite(saving their town and ambitions) and get the money as a reward. That's why citizens when they see them they act all angry and shit.

And there are pirates like Eustass Kid and Teach who are the example of a real pirate. They don't give a fuck about the others..