User blog comment:LuffyPirateKing/When The Sun Goes Down/@comment-4295416-20120114210858/@comment-82.24.0.104-20120116191800

status means a lot in this era, where pirates are rogue practically everywhere, the marines need a decent deterent. So killing high class pirates like 'the pirate kings son' or claiming you killed the pirate king rather than he surrendered to you, and so on and so on, acts as a massive deterent to the world of the pirates