Mr Singh was accused of handing the Pakistani army an alibi for its murderous use of militant proxies a monstrous outcome.
But there is room for scholarly inquiry into the working of the murky state machinery that led to that outcome to determine whether the tragedy was principally the result of murderous design or culpable neglect.
Tarantino, for his part, doesn't seem that invested in the outcome: this ugly cat's cradle of murderous agendas serves as a mere hanging structure for his trademark bursts of extreme violence and extravagant verbiage.
As a result, they are particularly murderous.
On the contrary, the political obtuseness of Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt's de facto leader, and the brutal repression he has unleashed now threaten to produce the worst of all possible outcomes to an already inflamed situation: a murderous civil war.
The overthrow of Saddam Hussein's murderous rule and the stirrings of democratic politics are all positive outcomes.
Earlier in his career he helped found two private security companies, Sandline International and Executive Outcomes, linked to some of the continent's most murderous civil conflicts.
In Scotland, the final outcome was like a scene from one of Shakespeare's more murderous plays - Titus Andronicus perhaps.
We braced ourselves for the worst possible outcome by renting "The Bad Seed," a 1956 schlock classic about the murderous exploits of an 8-year-old with blond braids.
While it seems less likely by the day that he will, never knowing what happened is undoubtedly the best possible outcome for the many who would rather be affiliated with a reformer than a murderous despot.
