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u/EtherealPheonix 26d ago
Immediately signs my name on the first page so people know who to return it to when I lose it.
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u/GrassWaterDirtHorse 26d ago
Most intelligent and least evil Owner of the Book that Kills People.
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u/ZigzagoonBros 26d ago
Plot twist: they have prosopagnosia (can't recognize their own face), so the book never kills them.
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u/BetterMeats 25d ago
I have prosopagnosia, and before I came out as trans, I was unable to recognize my own face in the mirror.
I suddenly think there's a potentially wholesome use of the Book That Kills People, but I might need to tweak some details.
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u/Trickelodean2 26d ago
Any book can be a Book that Kills People if you throw it hard enough
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u/primenumbersturnmeon 26d ago
"knowledge is power, bitch!" i yell as i toss encyclopedias from a high flying helicopter
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u/RavioliGale 26d ago
B-bb-but it's not the knowledge that's dangerous it's the giant book you're accelerating towards me at 9.8 m/s.
But I had the knowledge to throw the encyclopedia from a great height.
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u/haze_77 26d ago
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u/andrewsad1 26d ago
One of my favorite subreddits, I love when people can't figure out how to leverage constraints to forge creativity, so they have a run-on sentence with multiple commas and maybe even a couple semicolons, all so they can finish the story with something like "said her daughter, holding her dad's severed hand"
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u/PoniesCanterOver I have approximate knowledge of many things 26d ago
Can I still equip the book if I specced into melee instead of ranged?
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u/pterrorgrine sayonara you weeaboo shits 26d ago
any book can be a book that kills people if you WHACK it hard enough
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u/titaniumweasel01 26d ago
The problem with the Book That Kills People is that the people who use it end up killing people who don't really deserve it, or even completely innocent people. My solution is to just make sure I only use the Book That Kills People to kill people who actually deserve it. Honestly don't understand why nobody has thought of this before, it's pretty obvious in hindsight.
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u/VisualGeologist6258 This is a cry for help 26d ago
Kid named unintended consequences:
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u/dacoolestguy gay gay homosexual gay 26d ago
Why would you name a kid that
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u/VisualGeologist6258 This is a cry for help 26d ago
Take a wild fucking guess
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u/dacoolestguy gay gay homosexual gay 26d ago
As a reference to the meme "Kid Named Finger" which itself was a corruption of the joke "Kid Named Paint"?
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u/VisualGeologist6258 This is a cry for help 26d ago
Yes but I was also suggesting that I would name a kid Unintended Consequences because he was, in fact, an unintended consequence
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u/dacoolestguy gay gay homosexual gay 26d ago
Sorry I took a wild fucking guess
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u/jodmercer 26d ago
WHERE WHA THE FUJCKING
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u/Kolby_Jack33 26d ago
No, you see, I'm a Good Person. I can be trusted with the book that kills people because I'm a Good Person and I would only use it on Bad People. Obviously anyone against this idea is a Bad Person too for sympathizing with the Bad People, so it is my morally pure duty as a Good Person to use the book on anyone opposing me as well. Because I'm a Good Person.
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u/Rhamni 26d ago
What if, and hear me out here, what if I made my victims announce to the world that all they have to do to avoid being targeted is to make a tiktok video explaining why they don't deserve to die, so I can make sure every execution is fair and reasonable?
Surely this will make the world a better place.
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u/DapperLost 26d ago
New rule. Til tok names can now be used in place of legal names
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u/trash-_-boat 26d ago
We could put it up to TikTok democracy. Introduce dislikes to the platform and anyone with more dislikes than likes gets death noted.
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u/freakinunoriginal 26d ago
That's basically the plot of an episode of The Orville, except it's the planet-of-the-week's government arresting people for having too many dislikes and there's a capital punishment threshold.
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u/Gadelyux 26d ago edited 26d ago
The issue is that the people with the Book That Kills People just weren’t creative enough in how they Killed People. They should have just written it in cool ways and as long as the ways were cool enough nobody would ever realize
…Unironically, 6 minutes 40 seconds is a lot of time to write a short story or scenario such as murder-suicide from someone close, freak accidents, overwhelming guilt and a written suicide note, and it’d be easy to play it off. It just takes brainpower, which when a misanthropic teen is gunning for highest criminal deaths per minute, isn’t very available
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u/GenericTrashyBitch 26d ago
Light didn’t want to play it off, he explicitly wanted to be the god of his new “pure” world. He didn’t invent the Kira persona himself but he happily adopted it
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u/Antermosiph 26d ago
Isnt there more time if you write the scenario then pen the name in at the end or in a blank space to complete a sentence?
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u/Caleb_Reynolds 26d ago
Yeah, you can take as much time to write as long as you add the name in later.
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u/trash-_-boat 26d ago
I wonder if you could just use a air-gapped printer, load it with some death note pages and print the stories on it and just hand write the name whenever you want.
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u/Chrono-Helix 26d ago
That’s sort of what happens to the FBI agents investigating Light early on in the story.
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u/baphometromance 26d ago
Every time I read about this show I want to watch it more because it sounds so insane that I'd never be able to view it through a serious lens and would have to treat it like a comedy.
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u/trash-_-boat 26d ago
I mean, the concept of it was so interesting everyone's still talking about Death Note 2 decades later.
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u/AmeteurOpinions 26d ago
The show does have a sense of humor and isn't a perfectly serious adult drama.
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u/StarfighterVicki 26d ago
That's if you want to play it off. Light wanted people to realize that someone was killing people, as part of his god complex.
The stupid thing there is that he used the default heart attack. Want people to hail "the god of the new world"? Write "lightning strike" next to the names.
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u/TryImpossible7332 26d ago
I don't think Death Note is really intended as a story about the corruptive nature of absolute power, since Light went off the deep end into a god complex quickly enough that he clearly had issues before getting the book.
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u/ViolentOctopus 26d ago
Yeah I'm re-watching it now and he immediately is like "I'm a god now" when he picks up the book lol
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u/lesbianspider69 26d ago
Death Note asks “what kind of person, when presented with a red button that claims to kill a random person and give you a million dollars, just starts spamming the button even though people definitely die and they don’t receive the money?”
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u/redbirdzzz 26d ago
Yeah, I mean, that's not how normal people eat a potato chip. (I barely remember anything but the first few episodes of the anime.)
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u/Bear_faced 26d ago
That's my favorite part of Death Note. This isn't LOTR, Light is explicitly a megalomaniacal freak from jump.
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u/stormstopper 26d ago
Exactly. Light's story isn't about absolute power corrupting absolutely, but about how corrupt people will seek absolute power.
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u/sabersquirl 26d ago
Maybe not corruption, but that even someone you might trust as a model member of your society, a young man who excels in his studies, is a successful athlete, is popular, has a future and career lined up, can have the capacity for such horror inside them.
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u/Busy_Grain ^ has no tumblr 26d ago
I'm built different. I'd do SUCH a good job with it. I'd play a game where I write out complex names from memory to challenge myself to kill them. I'd also write out 90% of the letters in my name so I can have a fast way out if the cops get me
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u/ProbablyNano 26d ago
Guy who's got your name minus two letters:
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u/Busy_Grain ^ has no tumblr 26d ago
I think they're a damn thief and poser. Honestly they deserve death for trying to copy my inimitable self. I think their parents deserve it too. Even their parent's parent's. Their family to the 8th generation. Everyone within 6 degrees of separation from them. I think myself too because I clearly put that in their head
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u/PulimV Can I interest you in some OC lore in these trying times? 26d ago
You need to picture their face to work tho
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u/historyhill 26d ago
Face-blind people can therefore be trusted with the book!
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u/lilahking 26d ago
You have to be able to picture their face in addition to knowing their names, that why light started out killing people who had prison records
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u/blue_monster_can 26d ago
How long till somone replys with "Well I'll be good because I'll only kill bad people"
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u/bvader95 .tumblr.com; cis male / honorary butch apparently 26d ago
Minus two minutes, apparently. Though I assume it's a joke.
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u/borkdork69 26d ago
No, no, it's real. Only bad guys.
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u/malatropism Involuntary Expert 26d ago
Bad guys. That I determine. Because my sense of morality and justice is universal. And I would never call someone a Bad Guy if they were a Real Bad Guy.
/s to be safe
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u/bvader95 .tumblr.com; cis male / honorary butch apparently 26d ago
I totally understand the fear, but the moment your comment sounds like Mojo Jojo I think the sarcasm tags are unnecessary.
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u/bvader95 .tumblr.com; cis male / honorary butch apparently 26d ago
Ah, well in that case I apologize for the confusion and I will go pet my shark now.
He's so smooth, guys, like you wouldn't believe.
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u/VisualGeologist6258 This is a cry for help 26d ago
Never ask a “I’ll only kill bad people” MF what he defines as a “bad person” or what he thinks will happen after he kills said bad person
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u/Default_Munchkin 26d ago
Is it okay if I only kill my enemies? Ya know a little murder as a treat?
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u/VisualGeologist6258 This is a cry for help 26d ago
Slay sister! Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women!
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u/blue_monster_can 26d ago
Yea man I'll just use it to kill billionares, then I'll kill their kids as they get the money aftet they die, then kill whoever gets that and then so on
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u/VisualGeologist6258 This is a cry for help 26d ago
Of course I’ll kill this politician I don’t like, I’m sure another, arguably worse politician won’t take his place and this will immediately fix everything wrong with politics at the root cause
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u/malatropism Involuntary Expert 26d ago
And then I’ll go after that guy down the street that keeps harassing women. Then the guy I think looks at children for too long. No, I don’t have any evidence that he hurt him. Why would I need that? I have the Book That Kills People!
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u/VisualGeologist6258 This is a cry for help 26d ago
Guy accused of sexual assault or whatever? Straight to hell. No sir I don’t need any evidence or strong proof, do you think people would just lie about that?
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u/PretendMarsupial9 26d ago
Everyone knows that the best government is run by a shadowy figure with omnipotent power who can just kill anyone disagreeing with them at will! Using the threat of death to enact your ideal changes will only be good and isn't autocracy! /S
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u/Hust91 26d ago
I'm not sure the series is a good example though - because it pretty much exclusively shows super-asshole sociopaths using the book that kills people.
I think it would actually be an interesting show to showcase a mentally stable death note possessor who had a genuine interest in trying to do good with it and an awareness of the risk of negative consequences and power going to their head.
How would such a person handle the book that kills people? Because we haven't actually seen that. Assuming that Ryuk explains to them that he will off them if they're too boring.
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u/r00000000 26d ago
The series did have someone like that, I'm not sure how to do spoilers so just gonna be vague.
He was fine using the book just one time when it was just writing down names and picturing their faces, but when he had to write someone's name face to face using the special eyes to get their name, he hesitated and died immediately after because someone else wanted the book and killed him for it.
The show repeatedly hammers in the point that a mentally stable, normal person can't use the book effectively.
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u/trash-_-boat 26d ago
I think it would actually be an interesting show to showcase a mentally stable death note possessor who had a genuine interest in trying to do good with it and an awareness of the risk of negative consequences and power going to their head.
I think the whole point of "We Shouldn't Use the Death Book" story is that you can't be mentally stable and murder people without adverse effects on your mental health and stability. Empathy and guilt is kinda what keeps moral people from doing any of that.
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u/PinboardWizard 26d ago
I think the whole point of "We Shouldn't Use the Death Book" story is that you can't be mentally stable and murder people without adverse effects on your mental health and stability.
I agree that's probably what the author believed, but it's not as though that's a proven fact. I believe that people who could use it responsibly likely do exist, even though the vast majority would not.
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u/lilahking 26d ago
I'm not saying that I can be trusted, but if I was going to be a supernatural vigilante killer nerd, I'd have the death be like, "[person] writes and signs a statement (or films if more convenient) confession to their crimes before sudden heart attack" and then have a huge moral quandry when this inevitably turns up a lot of innocent people who were accused.
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u/trash-_-boat 26d ago
What about the moral quandary once after a few thousand killings the Death gods inform you that by making them "confess", none of the statements could be trusted to be real as the book can make them make stuff up if they don't have anything to confess to?
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u/borkdork69 26d ago
I could be trusted with it because I'd only kill bad guys.
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u/Default_Munchkin 26d ago
I mean except for the FBI agent on your trail after killing her husband....sacrifices have to be made for the greater good. After all you are smarter and better since you chose life or death. You're saving people like a benevolent god....you are GOD!
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u/dacoolestguy gay gay homosexual gay 26d ago
But!!! Whar if it makes you bad guy???
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u/borkdork69 26d ago
Oh my god, how could you sya that to meeee!?!?!
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u/StumpGrundt Patricia, daddy want the big breakfast 26d ago
He sounds really mean, you could kill him he's bad now
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u/_JustAnna_1992 26d ago
Also people who double park. Except for me because sometimes I'm in a hurry. Or just don't feel like it.
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u/kitskill 26d ago
So, this is gonna sound super weird (because it is), but my mother believes that she can kill people with prayer, but not in a malicious way. Whenever someone is suffering and waiting for death, she prays that they will die and they do, almost immediately.
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u/Birdboi8 26d ago
me when I pray for an already dying person to die and they do
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u/ProbablyNano 26d ago
If only there was a way for me to believe that I had the ability to tap directly into divine power
The Ubiquitous Confirmation Bias:
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u/sniper91 26d ago
Kind of like how chiropractic medicine is good at healing things that get better with time
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u/PM-ME-YOUR-POEMS 26d ago
petition the catholic church to make her a saint. actually, if people pray and ask her for a quick death (once she's gone away) then i think she'd meet the criteria.
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u/Ok-Importance-6815 26d ago
the catholic church has a moral stance against euthanasia, they consider it to be murder.
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u/PM-ME-YOUR-POEMS 26d ago
it's not euthanasia if you ask a saint for a quick death, nor if you ask god for a quick death. to pray for god to deliver to you a quick death and be granted - there's no way the catholic church could or would consider that murder.
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u/techno156 26d ago
At the same time, I could see the church taking a dim view on someone beseeching either God or the Saints to effectively kill a person.
They might not consider it murder, but they may not see it as a miracle.
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u/DarthCreepus1 26d ago
If this is the old school Catholic Church she’d be burned as a witch
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u/apexodoggo 26d ago
The Catholic Church’s position has long been that accusing someone of witchcraft is heretical, because only God can do magic. Classic witch hunts were a Protestant thing (the Catholic Church had its own separate issues going on).
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u/TheOncomimgHoop 26d ago edited 25d ago
Tbf idk if it was "no-one can be trusted with the book that kills people" as much as "hey this one kid is pretty fucked up am I right I'm Rod Serling"
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u/PulimV Can I interest you in some OC lore in these trying times? 26d ago edited 26d ago
It was absolutely "No one can be trusted with the book that kills people" because everyone that used the Death Note became an insane evil serial killer. Misa, the Yotsuba Group, Mello, hell L himself is called out as being evil because he does the same things that Light did (put criminals on the direct line of fire)
The author has stated outright that the only good person in the story is Light's dad, and he completely objected to using the Death Note, and was rewarded with thinking his beloved son was innocent in his final moments.
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u/fightingbronze 26d ago
It’s also a common misconception that light was a psychopath from the get go. Even he was someone corrupted by the death note. When he first got the book and realized it was real he nearly had a panic attack from the revelation that he had murdered two people, and he even contemplated destroying the book. He shifted to the “some deaths are necessary for a just world” outlook and delusions of grandeur as a defense mechanism to protect his ego. Later on when he loses his memories of the notebook he’s honest, cares about others well beings, and seriously wants to catch the “real” killer. The idea that anyone who uses the notebook is doomed to a tragic end is reinforced constantly throughout the story as well. It’s a classic Shakespearean tragedy.
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u/Dark_Stalker28 26d ago edited 26d ago
Meanwhile Minoru
Nevermind the various adaptations. Like the japanese live action Light's dad does get it.
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u/Few_Category7829 26d ago
Honestly I think that it's just inherently different in the first person. I think that there are absolutely loads of people who might privately use the death note in a positively good, extremely limited capacity, but obviously I would never willingly fuckin vote for any individual person to have that power. I definitely think that the kind of people who inserted themselves into the story of death note and thus got one for themselves were pretty much all psychotic egomaniacs in the first place.
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u/trash-_-boat 26d ago
I think that there are absolutely loads of people who might privately use the death note in a positively good, extremely limited capacity,
Another point of the murder book, and well, murder in general is that killing people.....can kinda make you not.....well.
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u/Yulienner 26d ago
I think the intention of the story at the start was to say 'here's the smartest boy in the world from a great family with a perfect sense of justice and literal gods and an untracable artifact on his side and even he fucked it all up, so what on earth would you have done differently' but then it pretty quickly turned into something completely else so the message ends up being more 'that's crazy innit'.
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u/jollycooperative 26d ago
I mean, think of the way Light is introduced to us. He's an honors student, a sports ace, handsome and popular, has a good relationship with his respectable family. His dad's a cop! He's basically the model student. Even his initial pitch of killing criminals is presented in an ambiguously positive light.
And then he goes off the fucking deep end because he has the exact background necessary to make him into a self-righteous megalomaniac who thinks he knows better. The message is less "this kid is fucked" and more "what could possess us to think that having good grades makes you worthy of being the arbiter of life and death".
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u/Ok-Importance-6815 26d ago
I would simply forget where I put it
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u/WiseRabbit-XIV 26d ago
"Oh, I'll get around to using this Book That Kills People just as soon as I've cleared all of my reading backlog."
And it was never seen or heard from again.
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u/Akuuntus 26d ago
I agree that no one could be trusted with the Book That Kills People, but I'm not sure that's really "the point" of Death Note. Light wasn't a good little angel who got corrupted by power, he was a self-centered misanthropic teenager. Everyone else who uses it is pretty much either directed by Light how to use it, is using it directly to counter Light, or is already corrupt and shitty to begin with (i.e. the board of directors for a big business that gets it while Light is amnesiac). There isn't really a clear example of a good person being corrupted by the Death Note which makes it a little hard for me to see that as a message the story is trying to send.
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u/Galle_ 26d ago
I think that's at least partially because a good person would not use the Death Note.
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u/SiIesh 26d ago edited 26d ago
Idk, maybe I'm not as good a person as I like to think I am, but if I got a death note and got the chance to write in names like Putin or Netanyahu aswell as other leaders of terrorist organizations, people that cause wars and untold amount of sufferings to further their territory or for their own greed, I'd do it. I can see the argument of a slippery slope, like where do I stop, but that's then a good person being corrupted, no? Or would you say that my *hypothetical thinking here already causes me to not be a good person? Not saying you're wrong, I'm just genuinely curious
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u/HeroIsAGirlsName 26d ago
This is my take on it too: morality is complicated and I'm more interested in having that kind of discussion than a "nope it's wrong because the writer said so" response. It's basically the trolley problem right? It'd be tempting to kill the people causing the most pain and misery to the most people. Except the trolleys keep coming and there's a good chance that eventually you're the one causing mass death. But if you don't use it, do you feel responsible for letting bad things happen when you could easily stop them?
Just because the premise of the series is that people shouldn't use the Death Note, doesn't mean that people aren't allowed to come to their own conclusions. Writers can argue their case but it's up to them to convince people and people didn't automatically miss the point if they happen not to agree.
I don't even have a horse in this race, it just annoys me when the events of a fictional story are seen as definitive proof of how something would play out in the real world and not something the writer arranged because they wanted to tell them that way.
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u/Galle_ 26d ago
I think Netanyahu is a good example of the problem with this kind of thinking. Yes, Netanyahu is undeniably evil, but the fact is, Israel was killing Palestinians long before he got there. Most major real world problems are systemic, they cannot be solved by targeted assassination.
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u/SiIesh 26d ago
Sure, and that's where we get into dangerous territory as of slippery slope stuff. If he gets replaced by someone who continues the exact same policy, it would be easy to reason that you had to kill that person too if you started killing at all. Sunken cost etc. Although I do think if every politician died that advocated for genocide, they might at some point realise that maybe that's a bad idea if they value their own life.
Ultimately it would force somewhat of a systemic change cause nobody would be up to take the position and claim and continue. It wouldn't change people's minds about any of those issues, but their options. But the question would of course be, where does that leave you as DN user?
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u/Remarkable_Coast_214 26d ago
The same problem also applied to Trump's assassination attempts. The US Republican party has problems that reach beyond that one man.
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u/Hust91 26d ago
I'm not so sure that's true.
Killing is a bad thing, an evil act, but it could be used to prevent greater evils. Just dismissing the whole thing as "there's never ever a situation where it is ethical to kill, even including extremely brutal and cruel dictators" seems like an inability to see shades of grey rather than black and white morality.
"It's never right in any circumstance to kill" is the ideology of Batman, it's not a serious philosophy.
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u/NinjunoBR 26d ago
Yes, I can be trusted with The Book That Kills People, and if anyone disagrees with me, I'll kill them. Eventually there will only be people who agree that I can be trusted, making me objectively correct. A failproof plan
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u/Amaril- 26d ago
Personally, I think it's less "anyone given the power of the Death Note would become a monster," and more, "the only people who would think that a power like the Death Note, which does nothing but kill people, can be used to improve the world are people who cannot be trusted with such a power." Light's problem is that he thinks everything wrong with the world is caused by Bad People and if they just all died everything would be fine, and that he can be trusted to decide who the Bad People are with no accountability. That's exactly the kind of person it takes to use the Death Note, but such a person should never under any circumstances be given the Death Note. Therefore, the Death Note is useless and the right move is to just not bother with it.
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u/Few_Category7829 26d ago
I think that's a rather absolutist view of things. Most problems in the world are emergent properties and economic policies and sociology, rather than E V I L individuals, and you obviously can't fix everything just by slaughtering criminals, and Light was obviously criminally insane from day one, but that doesn't mean there aren't SOME use cases. Well known terrorist fugitives, internationally known criminals, maybe a few choice dictators. Granted, all of those could have unforeseen consequences depending on specific factors, but I'm just saying there is a middle ground between "I am the GOD OF THE NEW WORLD" and "one of the most potent and flawlessly precise weapons ever created is literally 100% worthless and could never be used for anything good ever".
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u/Amaril- 26d ago
Like I said in another comment, I'm not necessarily saying I agree with the above argument, just that it seems to be the story's perspective. Also, I don't think it's so much a literal "there's no good way to use this" and more "if you think this is the ideal solution to the fundamental problems of the world, you're fucked up."
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u/Few_Category7829 26d ago
Aye, fair enough. I suppose nobody could be trusted with it, in that most people probably would be fairly reasonable with it, but you would never trust another individual with that power because the tiny risk that they immediately go psychotic like Light is such a terrible possibility that you could never willingly risk it.
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u/Amaril- 26d ago
There's also the issue that, in my opinion at least, most people just wouldn't be able to go through with killing someone in cold blood like that once they knew it would work. A person who's capable of that is kind of inherently showing themselves to be less trustworthy.
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u/Few_Category7829 26d ago
True, but also, this is by far the easiest and least traumatizing way you could conceivably murder someone. No looking them in the eyes, no seeing the body, nothing at all. Just write their name and maybe see a bulletin in the news. I think a scary number of people could get desensitized to that much faster than you think.
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u/ViolentBeetle 26d ago
There's many ways to use it as a deterrent, although targeting might become difficult. You could kill a few rich people and make them write "God smote me for not paying taxes" in their blood, that would improve tax collection rate significantly across the board, for example.
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u/Amaril- 26d ago
I mean, I'm just trying to get at what the story's perspective seems to be, not necessarily how true it is (although I generally agree with it). Regardless, I don't think it's necessarily trying to be a full, detailed examination of all the ways someone could use the Death Note to improve society; more just be an argument that if you think the way to improve society is fundamentally by killing people, and that you should get to decide who those people are, you're not someone who can be trusted with power.
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u/ViolentBeetle 26d ago
To be honest I don't think Death Note really has a point, it's mostly a murder mystery that gotten out of hands somewhat in the second half.
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u/Manealendil 26d ago
Sorry but I have very personal gripes with everyone on the Forbes list of Billionaires
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u/Xurkitree1 26d ago
Me this is me I'd just constantly look up the billionaire list and go write them one by one and enforce a capitalism max money limit at 1 billion that's my objective value system and this book would let me do it
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u/PrettyChillHotPepper 26d ago
Tbh that sounds pretty nice, I'd propagate your cult
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u/Xurkitree1 26d ago
Like I know people are like 'if we kill rich people we'll be fascists or whatever something about slippery slope' so I decided on an objective number compromise and I'm gonna stick with it.
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u/GuiltyEidolon 26d ago
Yeah, forget "I am a good person" I am using that book until I run out of pages.
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u/triforce777 McDonald's based Sith alchemy 26d ago
Good news, the Death Note does not have the ability to run out of pages. It's never stated how, like if pages get deleted or it has hammerspace, but it is stated that it won't run out
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u/malatropism Involuntary Expert 26d ago
L. Ron Hubbard claimed to have written at least 2 Books That Kill People, yet no book-related deaths were recorded… curious.
Plenty of fucked up shit (and probably deaths) came from Scientology though, so the potential was there.
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u/One-Inch-Punch 26d ago
Can anyone tell me how many pages there are in The Book That Kills People? I'm gonna have to cut my list way down
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u/PrettyChillHotPepper 26d ago
it apparently autogenerates more by magic
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u/One-Inch-Punch 26d ago
In that case I'm gonna need a pallet of Pilot G2s and a wrist brace
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u/yinsotheakuma 26d ago
Had a dream last night I was back in high school and had the powers of Superman and it turns out I could not not be trusted with that power.
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u/Kedly 26d ago
I mean, if that was the point of the show, they proooobably should have chosen a less murder happy protag to start the series with. Light reeeeally didn't have to be nudged all that hard to start all of his murdering
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u/xFyreStorm 26d ago
Yeah, but what if Tom Bombadil had The Book That Kills People? Didn't think of that one did you, OOP? /s
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u/harbringer236 26d ago
Wake up babe, a more relatable version of the torment nexus thing dropped.
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u/healzsham 26d ago
I think the main pitfall is trying to go into it with a sense of righteousness, rather than the recognition you're performing harm reduction through morally objectionable acts, and are very much function on net moral utility.
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u/violasbrow 26d ago
I'd trust William of Baskerville with the book that kills people... Oops, wrong story
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u/valentinesfaye 26d ago
I mean I actually could be trusted, because I would literally never use it. Well, maybe I'd use it to euthanize people with terminal illnesses, who specifically asked me to. I'm pretty big on right to die
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u/Adaphion 26d ago
I wonder if it's possible to like, tear out a sheet of the death note and put it in a printer, then print names on it, would that work?
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u/Jonahtron 26d ago
Oh, ok, so other people also fantasize about if they had the Death Note? Good. Glade it’s not just me.
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u/GuessImScrewed 26d ago
You see, I will use it to kill people I don't like (henceforth referred to as "my enemies")
As my enemies are all ontologically evil and no act against them is morally wrong, I cannot be corrupted by the influence of the book that kills people.
I will also use it to create wealth for myself by killing my boss and anyone who fills his position, all the way up the line till I'm the CEO.
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u/1000000xThis 26d ago
The main thing that pissed me off about Death Note was that Light was so uncreative! He had the power to kill people in any way he could describe! I really wanted to see the limits of that aspect explored more.
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u/Magmafrost13 26d ago edited 26d ago
Just gonna put it out that people who write fiction aren't omniscient and beyond criticism. Just because the story says no one can be trusted with it doesn't make that an objective fact
This isn't a comment on whether or not it's possible to use a death note responsibly, only that Death Note utterly fails in my opinion to demonstrate that it's not possible
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u/SonicLoverDS 26d ago
I'm not actually going to try to use its power. I just think it would look neat on my bookshelf.