Ten Commandments of the Mafia

Androsphinx · Post by **Androsphinx** » 2007-11-09 06:26am

Wasn't sure if this should go here or in N&P.

But you've seen the Ten commandments of Driving. Now, the Ten Commandments of the mafia are revealed to all. For example, here

1. No one can present himself directly to another of our friends. There must be a third person to do it.

2. Never look at the wives of friends.

3. Never be seen with cops.

4. Don't go to pubs and clubs.

5. Always being available for Cosa Nostra is a duty - even if your wife is about to give birth.

6. Appointments must absolutely be respected.

7. Wives must be treated with respect.

8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth.

9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families.

10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2007-11-09 10:05am

10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

This just made my day. It's the fucking mafia! They kill people and blow up roads and extort money and run drugs. How moral can you get if you want to be a member?

Post by **fgalkin** » 2007-11-09 10:46am

PeZook wrote:
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

This just made my day. It's the fucking mafia! They kill people and blow up roads and extort money and run drugs. How moral can you get if you want to be a member?

Don't forget, it's the Italian Mafia, so they're all good little Catholics. Which means that killing people is perfectly OK, but porn, sex out of weldock, or using condoms isn't.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-11-09 11:21am

Morality is subjective.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2007-11-09 11:33am

Kanastrous wrote:Morality is subjective.

Not necessarily. If you recognize where morality came from (tribal society) and why (rules necessary for collective survival and properity), you can assemble an objective, logic-based morality scheme. The only trick is first defining what such a scheme is supposed to accomplish: a question which is answered by realizing where morality came from.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-11-09 12:08pm

^ Ideally, perhaps.

I probably should have qualified it: Morality is subjective, in practice.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2007-11-09 12:14pm

Off to OT.

lord Martiya · Post by **lord Martiya** » 2007-11-09 12:23pm

fgalkin wrote:
PeZook wrote:
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

This just made my day. It's the fucking mafia! They kill people and blow up roads and extort money and run drugs. How moral can you get if you want to be a member?
Don't forget, it's the Italian Mafia, so they're all good little Catholics. Which means that killing people is perfectly OK, but porn, sex out of weldock, or using condoms isn't.

Have a very nice day.

I cannot have a nice day, if my connationals apart Berlusconi make all the world laugh of us. And the worst is that you are right: lupara is good, porn is to shoot with the lupara.

Post by **Dalton** » 2007-11-09 12:26pm

lord Martiya wrote:I cannot have a nice day, if my connationals apart Berlusconi make all the world laugh of us. And the worst is that you are right: lupara is good, porn is to shoot with the lupara.

Is this a secret code or something?

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-11-09 12:48pm

lupara = sawed-off double-barrel shotgun.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2007-11-09 10:09pm

Isn't #5 and #7 kinda contradictory?

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2007-11-09 10:23pm

SpacedTeddyBear wrote:Isn't #5 and #7 kinda contradictory?

Somewhat, a made man can respect his wife but the Cosa Nostra trumps that. But then again that list is pure grade A bullshit.

lord Martiya · Post by **lord Martiya** » 2007-11-10 03:36am

It's like G Canon and C Canon for SW

Dalton wrote:
lord Martiya wrote:I cannot have a nice day, if my connationals apart Berlusconi make all the world laugh of us. And the worst is that you are right: lupara is good, porn is to shoot with the lupara.
Is this a secret code or something?

Lupara is a common weapon here in Italy, at the point that in some old Disney stories Scrooge possessed and fired a lupara, so I forgot that in other countries someone could don't know them and their old association with the Mafia. For further infos, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupara .

Thanas · Post by **Thanas** » 2007-11-10 10:29am

Even funnier is the fact that all those commandments have been broken by Mafia bosses in the past...so I guess those are more designed to actually protect the bosses from the footsoldiers.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-11-10 11:13am

Kanastrous wrote:lupara = sawed-off double-barrel shotgun.

A bit OT, but it's what King shoots Ronald with.

Androsphinx · Post by **Androsphinx** » 2007-11-10 12:21pm

Thanas wrote:Even funnier is the fact that all those commandments have been broken by Mafia bosses in the past...so I guess those are more designed to actually protect the bosses from the footsoldiers.

It's a series of rules imposed by a powerful elite on their subordinates. Of course that's what it does!

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2007-11-10 12:26pm

Thanas wrote:Even funnier is the fact that all those commandments have been broken by Mafia bosses in the past...so I guess those are more designed to actually protect the bosses from the footsoldiers.

Based on the story, I figure that these were going to be the rules if this guy had become the BIG boss.[/b]

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-11-10 04:01pm

Einhander Sn0m4n

Is that from The Sopranos or something?

Yeah, it's like most organizations. In fact, it should sound very familiar: Live a good life, do as we say, and you'll get a hojillion virgins when you blow yourself up. You think most of the top Islamic dudes believe this stuff? And I mean the crazy fundamentalist stuff, not the mainstream Islam.

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2007-11-11 01:26am

fgalkin wrote:
PeZook wrote:
10. People who can't be part of Cosa Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values.

This just made my day. It's the fucking mafia! They kill people and blow up roads and extort money and run drugs. How moral can you get if you want to be a member?
Don't forget, it's the Italian Mafia, so they're all good little Catholics. Which means that killing people is perfectly OK, but porn, sex out of weldock, or using condoms isn't.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

You have no idea just how right you are. Unless, that is, you have a senile grandmother charged with taking care of her stroke-stricken husband who moans and wails over those short skirts the girls these days wear and all them gays and Pakis taking over this country, but Pope Ratty and her scatterbrain father are paragons of virtue.

lord Martiya · Post by **lord Martiya** » 2007-11-11 04:28am

You don't know what are you saying: the godfathers are the paragons of virtue if confronted with Herr Ratzinger. I live too near to them, I know this.

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2007-11-11 12:19pm

Aren't the godfathers and Herr Ratzinger simply in different departments of the same organization...?

lord Martiya · Post by **lord Martiya** » 2007-11-11 02:15pm

I don't know, but I think no. But the real difference is that the godfathers pay the electricity they use, punish their subordinates that rape women and children and don't tell us what's morality, the Pope doesn't pay the electricity that he imports from Italy because "a country cannot enforce taxes in another country" (the Vatican is separated from Italy), even if Italy pays the electricity that it import from France, protects his subordinates that rape women and children and then tells to all world the nature of morality.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-11-11 03:26pm

lord Martiya

Would you say you prefer the Mafia to the Church as an influence in Italian society?

lord Martiya · Post by **lord Martiya** » 2007-11-11 05:20pm

No, I'm saying that Mafia is more coherent than Ratzinger.