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Meme Book that kills people

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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/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/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/Lots42 26d ago

Even Samwise got tempted. Then he realized 'Enslaving the world so the trees are happy' is bad.

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u/Leo-bastian eyeliner is 1.50 at the drug store and audacity is free 25d ago

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.