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Southernfatman posted...

I get what you guys are saying, but most of those types of mobsters sold drugs anyway. They just didn't want anyone else cutting in on their action or lower members selling and getting caught and flipping. Carlo Gambino had a "deal and die" rule in his family, but he was big into the drug trade.

I'm just saying, while I get it, their hypocrisy is still stupid.

Sorta, in the old days, selling that kind of drugs weren't part of their racket. They were trying to stay out of that kind of business. To them, it wasn't that drugs were bad, there was a lot of downsides to them. Gangsters are businessmen and approach everything like that rather than personal(although I'm not saying there's no form of hypocrisy here, I'm just stating why they probably felt that way)