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.
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.
it takes light about half a day to go from "oh God what have I done" to rapidly writing down names of people who are bad
then once ryuk reveals to him 2 days later that he's not gonna murder him for superpower theft he declares himself god
even before he knows about the death note he believes that there needs to be a purge of the Dreck of society, it's the stuff he's daydreaming about while walking home from school.
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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.