[Long side glance and a bit of silence. It's not something Smoker can, or will argue with.]

And if in the middle of that storm, you're all surrounded by pirates on every corner and the navigator is the only one who knows how to steer the helm? Then throwing the navigator overboard will get you killed that much faster.

Don't get me wrong. I do loathe Akainu, and if he becomes Fleet Admiral, which I hope he doesn't; then it'll be a big problem. I hate the brass in general, the only one I get along with is Aokiji. But true justice means sometimes you make the sacrifice for the greater good.

I'll keep getting stronger and maybe that will take me to a better position to enact those kinds of changes. Right now I could barely touch Blackbeard in Luceti, and that was before he had Whitebeard's devil fruit and when he had none of his crew. Someone I'd be forced to say was my equal in strength fell to him quite quickly. Akainu is dangerous and untrustworthy, but unlike Blackbeard, he doesn't aim to engulf half of the world in flames. Lesser of two evils is still what it is.

There's limits. The old prison warden was jailed himself when he went over the line and started killing pirates. Of course mind you, that's someone Blackbeard broke free to join his crew.

Akainu's justice is twisted, but at least it's still justice at the root.