I'm built different.

Never watched it.

See the problem is Light didn't use the thing correctly. He could have written, "while suffering from a massive stroke, Senator ___ voted to pass nationalized school lunch." Sure, the killing people sounds fun, but it's what they do while dying that could make the world a better place.

The entire theme of Death Note is that power turns people into sociopaths

First off, sociopathy isn't a thing. It's a made up term a fake psychologist made up to put people on death row in Texas for personal gain. Go listen to the Behind the Bastards episode on it. The actual diagnosis is "psychopathy"

Second, Light Yagami was already a psychopath at the start. Notice how in the show that there were 2 others that held the Death Note and they didn't go mad with power over it.

yet this comment section seems to be teeming with people who are equally immature.

Look at all of the growing injustice and inequality in the world, spurred on by CEOs, dictators, and billionaires. Just look at health insurance, where hundreds of thousands die each year from denial of care. Look at Elon Musk and DOGE defunding USAID, which resulted in over 100,000 children dying across the world. Look at the destruction and death that Russia has brought to Ukraine to try and conquer them.

Look at everyone in this thread who looks at all of that pain and misery and would want to do something about it. You're calling them immature? No, you're the one who's immature, with all of your bullshit pearl-clutching.

Here's a bit of a tangent: when the US invaded Vietnam, there were a lot of incidents where troops were ordered to just wipe out villages of people who had nothing to do with the war, including women and children. There was also a high rate of soldiers "snapping" and shooting their officers in retaliation. Those soldiers didn't "snap", they were the sane ones.

Insisting that tropes are universally true just because they're repeated is absurd. It's something a child would think up.

Go look at history. There's plenty of examples of people who do the right thing when in positions of power. This is because power doesn't corrupt - it reveals who people truly are. It's just that selfish people are more likely to seek out power for personal gain.

We're talking year long consequences, after being in power for years. And then the next leader doesn't meet said fate.

Every month though? Different story. Especially if it's something like getting struck by lightning

If all that happened in the same month I bet it would get some people talking tho.