Die Yakuza sind vom Aussterben bedroht, aber waren sie ein „notwendiges Übel“? „Die Realität ist, dass die Bekämpfung der organisierten Kriminalität nur die Belastung für die Bürger erhöht.“

I just get the vague sense that this kind of nostalgic longing for the *yakuza* is just another veiled anti-foreigner/anti-globalization thing. “We miss the good ol’ days when the criminals played by certain rules and told us where they were.” sounds to me a lot like “Sure, the *yakuza* are scary and all, but at least they are being Japanese about it.”

I think the reality is that the extinction of the *yakuza* can only be seen as a good thing and that the romanticization of organized crime is one of those things that countries do when they want to absolve themselves of guilt for the horrible things their culture is capable of producing. Or just lamenting the fact that times are changing and the old-fashioned way is being replaced by something unfamiliar, and for certain people change itself is scarier than the violence and crime.

I dunno. Seems like “crime is bad” is one of those things that normal people aren’t really ambivalent about, so it’s weird to see people arguing it might actually be a good thing in a way.

If that logic flies, then you could say Fentanyl is a “necessary evil” too lol.