We tend to wax rhapsodic about Vito because he showed his "compassionate" side and was against drugs. But let's remember that Vito's regular businesses--gambling and unions--hardly constituted "victimless crimes." The big money in illegal gambling comes not from the odds favoring the house, but from loansharking--a business of broken kneecaps or worse. And every dollar that Vito got from the unions was a dollar taken from a workingman's pocket. Vito's business "ethic" was to present the utmost reasonableness, and back it with utmost violence.