Brutal, not the royalties getting burnt to a crisp, I couldn't care less about them, the dish washer who was silenced purely to remove Griffith from a potential speck when ascending the throne.
You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't. I think the bulk of us folk can understand the sentiment. While the dishwasher clearly did it for the payment, you can't help but think he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.