What I find ironic is how many posters on these forums lament how the old ways aren't followed anymore. Yet when one of them does follow the rules to the letter, even at the expense of his son, they are mad at him.

Within a moral context, we know what these guys are - murderers, thieves, career criminals, etc. That's not exactly news. So I already have a low opinion of them in that respect. But within a mob context, Quiet Dom didn't do anything wrong. In fact, he did exactly what he was supposed to do. So this doesn't lower my opinion of him one bit.

If you want to say "F#$% Quiet Dom" for being a mobster, that's fine. But singling out the fact that he OK'd his son to be killed makes absolutely no sense.