[damoncali]

Criminal businesses must by necessity adopt some of the work of governments because they are outside the scope of what the actual government does provide. You can't take your rival drug dealer to court over a dispute. You have to settle it in other ways. The threat of force isn't always a business model. Sometimes it's a substitute for legal recourse.

[rqebmm]

Legal recourse is the substitute for the role of violence in dispute resolution, not the other way around.

[damoncali]

Agreed. I meant that when you operate outside of the law, there is no legal recourse, and therefore you might have to resort to violence.