Originally Posted By: SC
Originally Posted By: Lilo
And given Vito's low opinion about men that made their living off of women, would he have assented to murdering a woman just to get one up on Geary?


Sure he would have.

Don't get all misty eyed when thinking about how high and mighty Vito was. He was a thug, albeit a smart one. His Family did well in business and they didn't need to resort to being pimps to earn their living BUT if they did (and became pimps) that wouldn't have mattered to Vito... he was earning a living for his Family.


True that.
But there again Vito refused to murder the attackers of Bonasera's daughter, was seemingly against drugs not only for pragmatic reasons (he wrongly thought it would jeopardize his business) but moral ones (he called it a dirty business), and was quite contemptuous of Tattaglia's primary business.

I'm not saying Vito wasn't cold, cruel and evil. Just that Michael was (or became) even more so.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.