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Originally Posted by Astromancer
I'd plunk down for the higher price and add requiered disadvantages. Omerta is antiethical with modern societies especially democracies. Anyone following Omerta would have to become a violent criminal sooner or later, and a subculture following Omerta would have to corrupt and or destroy any larger society it was a part of.
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The exception would be when the larger society (tacitly or not) allows a subculture to operate that way
internally, as long as it's contained within the boundaries. It's still not stable, but it can work that way for a while, I can think of various real-world examples.
(Not that they use omerta in a pure form, necessarily.)