Private
I don't stand in league with the bloody navy and I never shall. If it takes something terrible befalling me for me to understand you, then you'll not be offended if I say that I wish fervently that that day never comes.
You aren't an animal and you don't frighten me. I may not know who you are but I know that much. Even the rudest, filthiest muggle isn't an animal, and you're far from being that.
Do you believe taxes are always wrong? It'd be difficult for a government to help the poor without them, and it's usually an argument from very wealthy people who think it all ought to be left up to the philanthropists.
Some criminals deserve to be executed. That's justice, it isn't the same as just killing people.
Then I'll count myself fortunate that I'm a gentleman and not a pirate.