User blog comment:Kuma the Bear/In the beginning: Shanks' Journey revealed./@comment-53539-20170302172211/@comment-94.59.183.33-20170303185131

for the most part i think shanks did it (his reaction to the bandits) to teach luffy something very important in pirates' lives, which is there are  fights that are just not worth fighting. which is what luffy did with bellamy back in mock town (therefore earning respect from bellamy,teach,nami&specialy zoro.)because you see.. people have a wrong idea about pirates (they have this image of notorious, cold hearted monsters) which is kinda true, but that's why i love the fact that Oda didn't apply that to luffy annd his crew.