Quote Originally Posted by flenna View Post
I’ve read several true-crime books on the mafia and this is definitely true. It is unreal how easily they killed each other over slight infractions or just to get ahead, even among “friends” and guys that grew up together.
Organized crime is a cult with cult rules built in. You follow ALL orders, especially the ones you don't agree with. Once "killing your buddies" becomes standard practice all options are open. Only in the movies will you find people in the mafia who aren't willing to sell drugs to children, murder innocent people and things like that. If you make it into upper levels of organized crime, at that point you've already done more reprehensible shit than most people can understand that there is no reason you wouldn't kill anyone for any reason. And if you try and maintain some kind of moral compass, everyone else will see it as weakness and you won't last a month because people will line up to take your spot.