Death Note
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Death Note In the beginning, before he, overall, lost his true self, did you agree with Light?
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It took me until that to decide.
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When Light failed to resist the temptation to use the Death Note, he wanted to use it to rid the world of people to whom he judged as "evil", and said "even if I have to give up my mind and soul". While it is true that there are people who deserve to die, you know what? All humans are created equal, and we have no place or right trying to take the role, as God, and decide, ourselves, who we think deserve to live and die. What happened to him and what he became is a good example of that. And, of course, killing others wouldn't be the way to solve things, either. I don't see why anyone would want to worship someone who was a hypocrite, and who was on the same level as everyone else: in other words, a human.
Not only is it wrong, but it's more than a human can take (and, there's a reason for that). "Kira" was basically an identity that the people came up with, and he basically decided that it was a good idea, and while it wasn't his true identity, he began thriving towards it. Clearly, Light couldn't have become that way unless it was hiding within him, all along, but he still could have lead a better life and been happier, overall, if he had not made that foolish decision. He became obsessive over outwitting the enemy, and it became a game to him - Kira vs L, and that includes his supporters and L's successors under that name. He lost sight of his true goals, which were wrong, to begin with, and, in a world of darkness, ended up dragging anyone else who got caught up in that "game" were also put into their own world of darkness and sorrow. It's a sad thought, considering that, initially, Light thought that he wanted to create a world with only happiness, when it has equal happiness and sadness.
Overall, I don't see that he was good, or evil. He shaped into someone more confused, with mixed motives: though, he did think that he was doing something good, at first, and did do evil things, as well, and I always knew that what he was doing wasn't right, even if he thought it to be so.
There is more detail to my thoughts on the whole thing, but I thing that sums it up, well enough. :)
One could argue that he was essentially acting along the lines of a Batman-type character, but there are three problems with that. One, none of these criminals had any measure of superpower or other aspect that made it impossible for them to be captured by normal means and put in front of a jury. Two, in Batman, these people were all currently committing crimes, Batman was stopping something that was in progress. Three, Batman had a specific code of conduct not to kill, which means that while he may dole out justice, his justice is not final. The criminals in question still went to court and were still prosecuted to the full extent of the law after Batman acted.
So while the virtues of ridding the world of terrible criminals can be argued, consider my argument deontological - his means didn't justify those ends. His justice was itself incredibly unjust.
Plus I find the idea of creating world peace by becoming a serial killer extremely hypocritical...
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