[quote=@Tmitche23]
It is typical of the Navy and the World Government to overreact to slights toward them. And to be fair, the use of an early bounty is sorta moot. Brownbeard had a bounty of 80,060,000, and he had less of an impact than Arlong did. Arlong also bribed marines and kept a low profile on purpose to avoid attracting Jinbe's attention. He had the strength of a bounty of 100 million, but his real world threat was much less than that. He stayed in a small village and basically only picked on them. Bounties are signs more of threats than strength.
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You are correct. It is about perceived strength, rather than actual strength, but, like I said, a crew of 100+ Mil on the third Island of the grandline does seem excessive. Like 'You'll be having Marines, bounty hunters and other pirates hounding you forever'-excessive.

But hey, I was only after the reasoning for the high bounty.