>>16On the other hand, popular cults in billion-head countries have tended to cause riots whenever e.g. their leader is put on trial for kiddy diddling. Those tend to cause three- or four-figure numbers of casualties once the number of members reaches tens of millions and they start running their own schools and similar quasi-nation-within-a-nation stuff.
That's not to say that organ harvesting (i.e. murder) wasn't straight up repugnant.