So luffy wants to be a pirate but why? So far from others kuro, alfida, buggy, arlong we've seen pirates are trash, mean and they steal I know luffy says there are good and bad pirates but then I feel like 'good' and 'pirate' cancel each other out. If he doesn't do normal pirate activities isn't he just a guy with a crew going on trips.

Not to mention that the marines are constantly after them, luffy has a huge bounty and I assume that it'll keep increasing and the strawhats will get their own. Luffy has an unfair advantage because his grandpa is the head of the marines and he let him go but if not of that wouldn't him and the straw hats have been arrested?

Also in the one episode that the admiral met with zeff he said something about luffy being great like gold Roger but gold Roger was executed for piracy.

I just don't see the end goal in TRULY bring a pirate. That's luffy's whole goal being king of the pirates and we see his journey but it doesnt really seem like something that I'd root for him to achieve. To be the king wouldn't he have to be more evil than the others? Will the strawhats keep being pirates till they die? What if they want to stop but the marines are still after them?