Right here.
Are you going to continue lying about this? Are you going to continue moving the goalposts away from your initial, untenable claim?
Debunk what? You claimed that real life pirate captains historically maintained their status through duels, I gave you five historical examples of famous pirate captains that lost their captaincy through a crew vote (i.e. not because of a duel) and now you are attempting to distance yourself from your original egregious claim after I asked you to provide a famous historical example of a captaincy being won through a duel. You haven't debunked anything.
Well how about that. It is almost like a fella just recently on this thread talked about how pirate captains were voted into their position by the crew on the basis of competent leadership and not on the ability to win 1v1 duels...
Hmm, funny that.
You cannot unironically accuse me of being illiterate after coming to this conclusion from that quote.
The quote: "In the latter situations (i.e. the two specific scenarios of escaping the authorities and how to deal with an attack) there was no time for taking a vote and settling conflicting opinions."
You: "This means the captain was the strongest fighter in the crew!!!"
It did not say that whatsoever. In those scenarios, the crew is just going to automatically follow the captain's orders (the captain that they voted for based on his apparent competence) because quarrelling with him mid-battle would break crew cohesion and could result in defeat and death for all aboard.
You guessed wrong.
I do not care whether the work of fiction you are pathetically peddling is a historical drama or a historical fantasy, it is fictitious regardless and cannot be accepted as evidence in regards to real life history.
Besides, it cannot be that realistic if it causes you to push a historically illiterate claim that you have now abandoned.
I will take the fact that you are now distancing yourself from your ridiculous initial claim as you conceding the point, even if you refuse to admit it.