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CMV: People in organized crime do not deserve society's sympathy or understanding.

The vast majority of people in organized crime are cruel, greedy, self-serving people who commit crimes of all types, lie, steal, cheat, betray and kill people just for their own personal financial gain. Gangsters of all nationalities, races, and demographics have always been this way: the Mafia, the Cartel, the Triads, the gangs of the Wild West, pirates of the 17th century .... I could go on. 

Gangsters try to convince people that they are a "brotherhood" in order to convince disenfranchised, impoverished, and quite often, stupid young men to join them. But their only true loyalty is to their own greed. Betrayal isn't the bug in these organizations - its the feature. 

Some gangsters use the same old "I grew up poor" excuse to justify their base criminality. But the vast majority of people, poor and middle class alike, work hard and honestly in order to put food on their tables. And poor people are the ones who often suffer the most at the hands of organized crime. Gangsters do not do what they do because they have any sympathy for the impoverished communities they come from; they do what they do in order to get the money and pussy they feel entitled to. And the spoiled sons of mob bosses and wealthy gang leaders often follow in the same footsteps as their fathers. 

What really pisses me off is how so many of these crime organizations base their membership on ethnic lines, pretending like they care about the ethnic groups they come from. And yet, they make the lives of the communities they come from a living hell. They inflict extreme damage upon their own communities by flooding them with drugs, extortion, and violence. All so that they can earn money which they blow on gambling, drugs, and whores. Look at what happens when wealthy gangsters corrupt the politics of a region and gain political leverage: look at Sicily today, or Columbia, or the regions of Liberia controlled by so called warlords (who are really just gangsters, since they too traffic drugs, weapons, and even human beings to serve their own interests). Look at what China was like before 1949, when warlords (aka gangsters) controlled rural areas and Shanghai was controlled by the Triads before they were driven out of the country by the CCP. As I mentioned earlier, gangsters don't even care about their own members and associates, who they routinely murder if they think they can make a buck from it. 

Gangsters do not deserve the tolerance and sympathy of society.
gpt
>The vast majority of people in organized crime are cruel, greedy, self-serving people who commit crimes of all types, lie, steal, cheat, betray and kill people just for their own personal financial gain.


How do you know this? You don't think a lot of them just fell on some hard times and got really desperate? Does society at large bare any responsibility for those that fell through the cracks of the system? Are we claiming that the system is good enough and anyone that falls into this lifestyle is not worthy of basic human empathy?