Mafia only polices a faceless public where it can control and tax everyone

Evidence

The first condition is the only one which private citizens need satisfy: they may obey each ‘for his part only’ and from any motive whatever; though in a healthy society they will in fact often accept these rules as common standards of behaviour and acknowledge an obligation to obey them, or even trace this obligation to a more general obligation to respect the constitution. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 349 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The mafia protects everyone from peasants to arms dealers; Mafia protection tracks opportunity, not moral principle or universal rules; Private citizens need only obey rules for their own part. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 349

Related

• The mafia protects everyone from peasants to arms dealers (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Mafia protection tracks opportunity, not moral principle or universal rules #qualifies (0.85)
• Private citizens need only obey rules for their own part. #complicates (0.75) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 349