A report released today by the centre-left thinktank the Institute of Stating The Bleeding Obvious suggests that killing people 'harms the message' that the perpetrators are attempting to get across.
The report claims that public support for a given cause, rather than be enhanced by acts of murder, actually lose public support. Citing two examples of protest over education policy, recent mass murders in Pakistan and Nigeria have not managed to sway opinion towards the perpetrators of those atrocities who claim that educating children is bad. "If anything", one of the co-authors of the report told reporters, "opinion has gone the other way. It's as if people saw the massacre of children and thought 'I don't reckon these guys have fully thought this through.
"Similarly, if you're trying to object to comic depictions of a religious figure - however ridiculous that may sound - committing large-scale murder is not going to win the public debate". The report highlights that even world-renowned repressors of free-speech are seen to be on the opposite side to such actions. "If people like Benjamin Netanyahu and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are saying you've gone too far, you've not just crossed a line, but gone way beyond it such that the line is but a speck on the horizon.".
Critics have responded by saying the Institute has only gone half way, pointing out the flaw in the plan of those who inflict mass murder, but not how they may seek to better further their aims without slaughter. "The report was not intended to suggest alternatives to killing people," the author said, "that is for more research to be published another day. This is merely the first step in pointing out that these people are dicks".
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