I'm riding a bus and see a sticker on the window.  It looks like a spontaneous political slogan, like what 15 years ago would have been hand-made, but here the production looks professional.  

The slogan is "Murder Solves Nothing."  I don't understand much of the rest of it, but it is clearly calling someone from one of the main political parties a murderer.  

I agree that murder solves nothing, but I wonder if I would agree with the writer politically.

It's an effective strategy, starting with a basic truth to launch your opinion.

But wait.  Is it a basic truth? Murder might solve a feud. A blood feud. It really has no other solution. Well,  murder or forgiveness.  But murder certainly is one solution. The point of the slogan, though,  and I think that nobody can disagree with this, is that this is the wrong solution. I think this is a basic truth.

But "Murder is the wrong solution" maybe wouldn't have fit on the sticker.

Murder might solve over-population,  too. An old fashioned culling. Yeah.  Culling is murder, but nobody can deny its singular effectiveness.  

"Non-culling murder is the wrong solution. "

A bit too nuanced a slogan for a bus sticker, though.

Murder seems a go-to solution for a failing marriage, too.  It's in the news all the time. "Mark!" my wife reminds me whenever these stories come out,  "If you ever feel you want to kill me,  remember there is always divorce.  I don't want your money.  You don't have very much, anyways."

She always has to add that little jibe at the end. If anything,  comments like this advocate the pro-murder position.

Actually,  I'm coming around on murder. I wonder if one or two strategic murders might not get my students to do a bit more homework.

Sure,  even if it works,  it is not the only solution,  I could always make homework a bigger part of their grade. But we are encouraged to "be aware of the students' course loads."  We are asked to use innovative methods to encourage engagement. "Murder as incentive" might not be a innovation,  but it is innovative in the academic setting.

I might stick that on a bus.