Now, look at it.

One woman, no better'n I am, has had the property of eight women and a half, and here I am single and getting on in life, with the chances growing absurdly small.

No civilized country ought to tolerate such a thing.

It's worse than piracy.

You may scuttle a ship or blow her up or run her against the rocks, and no great harm is done, because timber's plenty and you can build another one.