I like to joke that sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between the mafia and the government, they both demand you give them money in return for protection.
Which is why the government goes after the mafia, they hate the competition.
Which is why the government goes after the mafia, they hate the competition.
https://www.econtalk.org/omer-moav-on-the-emergence-of-the-s...
One interesting limit case is what happens if everyone is a member of such a criminal organization? There’s no practical difference between a government.
Henry Hill : [narrating] All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI can never understand - that what Paulie and the organization offer is protection for the kinds of guys who can't go to the cops.
It must be really difficult living in an area of the world where the Government tortures your child, dismembers them with a chainsaw, and dissolves them in a barrel of acid if you don't pay your taxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupara_bianca#Examples
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But thousands of times more gruesome than that!? That's wild. I've watched Cartel vids where they slice open and expose the vocal cords laterally as their victims wail, creating otherworldly sounds.
But that's like... MAYBE 0.5x as gruesome as torturing some poor helpless child or tossing infant into a barrel of acid. So if you've got stuff that's 1000x as gruesome, I can't even comprehend! Please post.
The scale at which modern governments operate makes all of organized crime look like child's play. The quote "A single death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic" Is particularly apt here.
I think the scale of the brutality matters a lot, and governments can get bigger scale.
But, the Mongol government creating mountains of skulls that appear to travelers in the distance to be snow covered mountains with such a trail of human remains that the “grease” renders their horses immobile is pretty darn brutal.