Quote Originally Posted by SteyrAUG View Post
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.
My father grew up in Brooklyn and it was well known the mafia ran the neighborhoods. Interestingly enough he said the neighborhoods were never safer than when the mob ran them. No one messed with old people or kids, your Mom could walk down the block at midnight and feel safe. All the violence was mafioso on mafioso and gang on gang. Anyone messing with a kid or elderly person was found in a dumpster the next day.