Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death?
is NOT asking if anyone is capable. It is asking someone to DO it.
its like saying: can someone please take out the garbage.
and regardless making threats about people lives in public jokingly or otherwise is a definate no-no.
people are prosecuted for saying much less potentially dangerous remarks. e.g. libel and defamtion of character neither of which are usually related with loss of life.
because a company made the violation and profitted, people will side with the author i think thats the problem.
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.