There must be some guilt involved however; otherwise pirates wouldn't be spending so much time and effort in making theft seem completely justified and "not wrong" through the usage of complicated, winding arguments that ultimately carry little truth or logic.
Right. Silencing the inner sense of justice.
Drug Barons would be fast in eleminating (literally ) those people who still have a sense of justice in them. Because they disturb. Everything.
Interestingly, the more sensitive a person is - and this is my personal experience - the higher the sense of justice is. Wich is probably an explanation why brutals are rather found within the lins of Drug Barons, the Mafia, Hooligans etc. .
If I was a Drug Baron, I'd kill those first who have a sense of justice inside, because they'd be ble to drag me before court.
And with the rest I'd arrange myself using bakshish.
And that's how Mafia works : They create a "Wall Of Silence" either through simple corruption ("... and you'll get a piece of the cake, too !") or by distributing the feeling of fear, like fanatics do (Afghanistan, Iraq, Nazis).
And since those with a sense of justice inside are - as a tendency - so much more sensitive than the rest, it's easier to suppress them.