User blog comment:Zerosamarises/Is Akainu The Best Choice For Fleet Admiral?/@comment-1940096-20130322072111/@comment-4605926-20130323180809

@ST - XD it is kind of funny, but Hitler is some sort of a delicate matter for me...

@SHL - You don't say?

@Zero - wow, bull's eye if you ask me. Not sure if I thought about that myself as well, but now it seems even clearer. The Marines are supposed to be the "good guys" so to speak and the pirates, the "bad guys". While that may be true with the majority of the pirate crews, the Straw Hats are a completely different situation and the Marines don't exactly seem as righteous as they might've during the beginning of the series. Oda is seriously breaking stereotypes bit by bit throughout the whole story.

@AWC - A leader who wouldn't bother fighting his enemy wouldn't be better even in real life. While most of One Piece's content does not resemble reality, there are certain things or habits that are very difficult to modify in such a way that they would completely stop resembling reality so long as it is not the main focus of the series. These things or habits can be either physical, mental or emotional. For instance, relationship between people. When a person punches another guy in the face, that guy most likely won't offer him a cup of tea afterwards (unless it is poisoned of course). Most One Piece characters physically resemble and are more or less based on the looks of a normal human being much like animals. The sea is the sea, a ship is a ship, buildings are buildings etc..

A lazy leader is never likely going to be a positive characteristic.