If you were a pirate, what would be your cause?

A question just for fun.
If you were a stereotypical movie/story pirate, what would be your cause? High adventure? Money and treasure? An abhorrence for law and order? Sex and booze? The only perceived alternative you could find for freedom from a constricting society? The fashion, perhaps? Sea shanties? Why, and how come? Some other reason?
Or would you NOT be a pirate?
Oh but don’t limit yourself to the stereotypical peg legged pirate, if you’ve something else in mind.
Perhaps the historical pirate, who I believe has existed for as long as man has sailed the seas and oceans. The important part here is, what is your cause as a pirate? Why do you do it?

Just have fun with it if you can, teach me something about pirates if you like, and Happy Friday yall.

As for me, I pick Vikings. Conquest, violence and snow. Hell yeah, man. My cause is, for Odin!