For Pappa( son) to do the shit he was accused of doing; he has to be mentally unstable to say the least.
I think a lot of these young wanna be's purposely do shocking things in order to get noticed and make a name for themselves. Real gangsters dont want clowns like that around and are usually used and in the end killed. Pappa would of been killed. Kind of like Alite, i think his days were numbered and not because he disrespected Carmine Agnello. He was expendable. Just another guy who would commit violent crimes/ dirty work that no one else wanted or cared to do. Alite had balls and was probably a pretty tough kid. That said, most kids in queens would of grown very large balls in order to impress john gotti.
If you look at some of the rising starts in the gambino 's at that time; Mikey scars, Tore Lacascio, Vinny butch.. None of them would be smacking drug dealers in the head with pipes and then stealing their drugs.