I would've a bat to my friend's knees after my wife got raped/electrocuted. It's no excuse for him not immediately smacking his friend after the MOB threatened his daughter with rape.

If we went to the cops, they would probably just tell him to quit smoking and there would be no problem.
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OK, simmer down there, killer.

Police protection? For what? The police are not anyone's personal security. You think you can just go to the police and ask nicely and they will protect you 24/7? The police have no responsibility to protect anyone, only to uphold laws. Talk about a brainwashed statist.
Besides, the cops were probably all paid off anyway.

are we missing the point that Quitters Inc was ran by Mafia? they would find them anywhere thay ran and in some cases the police are either owned by the Mafia or paid off or simply look the other way for their own safety
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OK, but couldn't he have had his wife put under police protection?
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(sigh) These guys who ran Quitters Inc. were the MOB. Yeah, he could have called the cops, but who knows if the cops were paid off or if some of them were clients??
And in the short story, there was this line - Morrison thinking to himself: And if I go to the cops, the local goon squad will be around to reaarange your face, Cindy.
So at least in the short story, it was clearly explained that there would be dire consquences for Morrison's family if he went to the cops.

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I agree, especially when they kidnapped his wife. He literally could've led the cops to where she was.
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probably because not everyone is a vile psychopath that will beat his friend for giving him advice that didnt turn out well.
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I think he was just under too much stress to do the logical thing.

I doubt calling the cops would have done any good as I'm fairly sure that the Quitters Inc. guy said something about the organisation being run or founded by a very important person. It's therefore plausible that certain members of the police force would be in on the tactics of Quitter's Inc. I don't know why he didn't beat the crap out of his friend mind. That's the first thing I would have done.
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