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Originally Posted by KarlKost
He is also a fictional, as in, "non real", character.
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Looking at his Wikipedia entry, he's based on a number of real life people who pretty much did the same thing. Also, I recall reading (in the preface or similar) that William Gibson based the Keith Blackwell character (from
Idoru; he's a guy who used to make a living kidnapping and torturing criminals to steal their illicit funds) off of someone he met who pretty much used to do the same thing, and apparently there was a time when this actually wasn't all that uncommon in Australia (where both the character and the fellow he's based on were from) - the criminals who specialized in this were called "toecutters."
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Originally Posted by KarlKost
Have you ever heard of people that steals from the mafia?
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There's a world of difference between going after some random bank robber, drug dealer, or gangbanger and going after one of the largest criminal organizations in the world.
All that said, however, the NPC monster hunters probably have their hands full with hunting
monsters, and likely don't have the time to go after other humans. Maybe they occasionally moonlight as toecutters, when they run low on funds and there aren't any profitable monsters around, but I'd expect them to do so rarely.