VLVL 3 Zoyd and Hector

[Don Corathers]

jbor, at various times today:

>but Hector is sincere in looking out for Zoyd's best
>interests too.

Please. Hector is a Tube-addled psychopath trying to run a con. He has made
a career out of using marginally legal means--or in Zoyd's case,
spectacularly felonious means--to squeeze helpless and largely harmless
dopers into ratting on their friends or otherwise bending to his will.
Recently he has become a film producer, the only job title I can think of
that's less honorable than the one he had before. Hector is incapable of
sincerety.

>Hector's point is that dobbing in the occasional dope dealer for cash isn't
>nearly as big a sell-out as Zoyd makes it out to be, especially in
>comparison with the other deals and compromises Zoyd has made along the
way.
>Zoyd's priorities and sense of morality are askew; he doesn't realise or
>want to accept what he has turned into.

You're not agreeing with Hector that he *has* a point, are you? Zoyd made
one deal with the government, under extreme duress. That doesn't make him a
moral defective. To the contrary, I take his longterm rejection of Hector's
blandishments as evidence that his moral compass is working fine.

>The
>question begged here is whether there are any real distinctions between the
>way the Mafia operates and the way Zoyd and his cronies operated.

I'm completely baffled by this assertion. The distinctions are vivid and
polar.

Don Corathers