In history books and tv news shows, we are always taught to believe that the world of organized crime was a danger to society. But was it really a danger? Would the world today be the same had it not been for organized crime? How many important decisions and court cases have been made due to connections through the mob? Further more, from a moral/religious perspective were the actions by the corleone family and other actual mob families similar to them really so wrong? Vito Corleone was a product of his surroundings, there is no doubt that he wouldn't have become a crime lord had it not been for his early life in sicily, and new york. The Corleone family never killed for spite, and only killed those he either had it coming to them, or were bad people. Can one morally justify the actions of the mob as simply a way of life? The world was a better place because of the Corleone family, despite their methods of action. In other words to be blunt, would their actions send them to hell?...Just something I've been thinking about, and almost did a paper on in college.