So if you knowingly open a store in a neighborhood "protected" by the mafia, it would be unfair to characterize a protection payment as stealing? Sure, they're

So if you knowingly open a store in a neighborhood "protected" by the mafia, it would be unfair to characterize a protection payment as stealing? Sure, they're providing a service but that service is only necessary because of the mafia's market capture and threat of punishment in the first place.