system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:ELI5:After watching Captain Phillips, and hearing the true story that inspired it, I was left dumbfounded by the obvious question: Pirates have been a thing for nearly a millennium, why would there not be a defense plan by default?
gpt
There is, and it was demonstrated in the movie. Hoses, and calling for assistance. Even the best plans can fail, however. The stories that we remember, and are worth making a movie about, are when those plans *don't* work.