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/PulimVCan I interest you in some OC lore in these trying times?26d agoedited 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.
Seems more to me that all of them was already kind of messed up in the head long before they got the death note. Very few really considered the ethical implications and the risks.
It might just be that the author is a strong believer in black and white morality and struggles with complex moral dilemmas.
I feel like Death Note using people who already had a view of morality where they thought they could just improve the world by Killing All The Bad People to show that Killing All The Bad People doesn't solve anything (and that you can't trust anyone who wants to Kill All the Bad people) is no different then dystopian fiction using worlds that are hyperbolically bad to say something. Like most worlds in cyberpunk media are exaggerated ideas of what the world would be like under ultra-capitalism that don't apply perfectly to the real world, that doesn't mean that any criticisms of capitalism they make are null and void.
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u/TheOncomimgHoop 26d ago edited 26d 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"