These back and forth are getting a bit long in the tooth (sorry, couldn't resist)
I am addressing exactly the points you mention. My answers are directly to the points you mention in the previous post to which I replied. That's the best way to have a debate in my opinion.
The message I replied to mentioned Aiden and Bennett as a threat that would create trouble for Morello, which is absolutely garbage.
Misunderstanding, I think (most likely my fault). Neither Aiden or Bennett pose any threat whatsoever to Morello, of course not. I'm suggesting instead that threatening people or taking some other form of coercive action is not something done lightly, no matter who you are or how badass your organization is - there must be a risk/reward tradeoff that makes it worth it. Even if the risk is low, which I agree, what is the benefit?
If you're telling me that L&P has communicated here or elsewhere that Morello is willing to help Sophia out with these things (my memory sucks but I don't think Don Morello offered his assistance in-game), well, first of all, that's out of game information so Sophia wouldn't know that, and second, it's cowardly deus ex machina bullshit writing to get yourself out of a Grand Canyon sized plot hole, simple as. Maybe that's too harsh - let's settle for "a bit contrived, and a lot unimaginative".
No one, is going to choose to fight a mafia just to continue to have sexual acts with a woman. Aiden has a gf, Bennett gets women to fuck on a regular basis. Also Bennett won't risk involving government because he is the one harassing Sophia. Whatever those two can do Morello can do 100x times better. Plus even L&P addressed it once on the thread that Aiden is a school bully not anything like a gangster.
Of course not, any message telling either of them that Sophia is off limits would be definitive, no question. But again, why would he do it and perhaps more importantly, why would Sophia think it was appropriate to ask without incurring a further debt?
(There is a distinct but remote possibility that Sophia taking the Morello option to get out of her blackmailers' grasp will, in fact, further her debt to Morello which could deepen that plot but would ultimately take us (and Sophia) farther away from what really matters in this game: Ellie's honey pot.)
I addressed why Morello will help Sophia in one of the messages.
You did, I'm just not convinced. I can see how you got to that conclusion and it isn't like a complete break with logic or reason or the ramblings of a lunatic (that's my job), I just don't buy it. Agree to disagree?
You've written so much more which is good and compelling and, ultimately, this all reduces down to a genuine difference of opinion so all's good and no reason to dissect all of it.
I will just pull on this last tidbit as some food for thought:
I don't know about you but this Don is definitely not a sleazy bastard and seems to be a kind of person who has a set of ethics he follows.
I'm a grown man on f95 at all hours of the night and several during the day, arguing about, well, you know, and arguing in favor of a woman and her sister and her daughter and her neighbor's daughter and the soccer mom and her sybian all getting together for a night of fun, so of course I'm a sleazy bastard. How dare you question my credentials?!!