Allegra's info on doctors and nobles goes well with this statement from Tommaso Buscetta:
"Lawyers, doctors, engineers, princes were all made men of honor. But men like that aren't going to shoot and they didn't shoot. They were made men of honor because they served the common cause, some because they had an estate, some because they were needed to tend to injuries. All of those people joined up very willingly. Cosa Nostra wouldn't have made a man of honor without testing, testing, testing him"
Like I said in the original post, I don't buy Allegra's comments that he was naively forced into Cosa Nostra membership. As Buscetta says, "those people joined up very willingly" and were tested. It wouldn't be in Cosa Nostra's interest to force a random doctor to become a member if there wasn't a mutual interest.
Like Buscetta says, too, there isn't evidence that these professionals were expected to act as gangsters. They brought a different kind of value to the membership. The modern day "earners vs. killers" discussion seems to be a simplified way of discussing this, but in Sicily it wouldn't have been that simple, only that there are different types of members who offer different assets to the organization.
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