The Mafia was and honored and loyal society for hundreds of years until the RICO acts kicked in, but you people are all thinking it was always bad because everyone was disloyal and became rats which is NOT true, disloyalty did not appear much within the Mafia until the 1970's when RICO kicked in.
That's an overly simplified, romantic view of the Mob. The bottom line is they feed off those who cannot fight them and they're thieves (and not like Robin Hood thieves).
Are they exciting to talk/read about? Absolutely! But they're a bunch of bad people. Don't romanticize them in your mind.
