Samurai are better than Pirates

I would like to thank you for responding My opponent states, "I would agree that in your case of the argument, pirates do have higher impact on current life of society. But unfortunately, what I meant as pirates were of course your Victorian circa.1500 sense of the word pirate, and I would like apologize again for not making that clearer in my introductory statement. " The claim he is making is that he meant to be clearer in his argument when he realized my argument. Sorry Pro, you can't change the terms now when you leave them so vague. You must provide parameters and conditions if you wish to specify which pirates you were talking about because by simply saying "swashbuckling pirates", which means flamboyantly adventurous individuals who rob and attack at sea means that modern day pirates fit that definition perfectly making my arguments and points perfectly legitimate and making it bad conduct on your part to verify after the fact I accepted your debate and made legitimate arguments. Therefore my arguments still stand since the pirates I mentioned fit criteria of your topic and your wording of "swashbuckling pirates". I agree that Samurai were superior in sword fighting, but however since you did not specify that you intended the debate to be about Victorian pirates you cannot change the specifications now at the final round. For all I or the audience know is that you did intend the debate to be between Samurai and Somalian pirates and you simply changed the specifications when you realized my arguments were too good. Sword fighting is obsolete. I'd rather have 100 Somalian pirates with modern day assault rifles, which they frequently use and favor, than 1000 Samurai with expert swordsman experiance. The Samurai may be very well trained with swords, but hand to hand combat and especially sword fighting as been rendered obsolete in the face of advanced weaponry, which various pirates posses. Regarding armor, any armor the Samurai would have possesed over the age of the Samurai, would have easily been penetrated by the weapons some pirates posses by quite a ways away, making battle armour obsolete. Discipline would have been obsolete as well, again a small group of pirates with automatic weapons can easily defeat sword welding soldiers weighed down by battle armor. In conclusion. 1. My opponent did not specify in which areas Samurai would compete with Pirates, so it was legitimate of me to assume that they would compete in a number of reasonable aspects. He has conceeded that Samurai no longer exist while pirates do and that Pirates have had a much greater impact on the world than Samurai. 2. My opponent was not specific and very vague when he initially meant "swashbuckling pirates By my sources swashbuckling pirates would mean flamboyantly adventurous individuals at sea who rob and plunder others, meaning modern day pirates fit the initial defintion set by the instigator . http://www.thefreedictionary.com... . http://www.thefreedictionary.com... He cannot change his criteria for pirates after forfeiting half of the rounds. All in all I had better conduct as I responded for every round whereas my opponents missed rounds 2 and 3 The pirates I pitched against Samurai fit the defintion of "swashbuckling pirates" set by my opponent who failed to be more specific.