you guys. . . pirates have already won.
who’s everywhere? pirates.
who’s never anywhere? ninjas
yeah, you can try and argue it out, but even that leads to a pirate victory, if you use the right argument. Talk is cheap, however.
So, facts- which is a more frequent occurrence:
Stealth assassination, or piracy in its myriad forms?
The Mafia? Pirates. Corporate America? Pirates (With extremely rare deadly exceptions). Nearly every teenager with an MP3 file in the entire world? PIRATES. You yourself? 99.9% chance of PIRATE.
I’ll even be fair and address stealth killings:
Random unsolvable theft/murder? Unless performed with flawless accuracy and with impeccable honor- Not a Ninja.
C.I.A. assassin? Too corporate, no honor- not a Ninja.

The problem is that to be a ninja, rigid rules must be followed, even to the bitter dead end, resulting in near extinction. Pirates, by nature, are rebels- rule breakers, and team players, albeit massively dysfunctional ones.
If the argument is “who’s more awesome?”
Ninjas have a fighting chance, but I still feel they come just a bit short, and it all comes back to the rules.
Yeah- they kill expertly, but you only get to see any awesome if the target is supposed to be a public example- most times an assassination needs to be disguised as anything but- and even the public awesome means that some guy with a paycheck gave the ninja permission
In other words, there’s no style.
Say what you want about a one on one fight- I don’t even care. The jocks in gym could beat up Stephen Hawking, but i think we know who’s more awesome.
Here’s the “cool” fight right here:
“Women want him- men want to be him”
Women love pirates, pirate women are always either stacked or bad-ass, and one of the most awesome verbs in the universe is “Swashbuckle”
I invite all contention to the contrary,
however it should be reminded the real truth of the situation: eventually zombies would kill them both off completely.