If you gave me the Death Note no one would ever see it again. Not even me.

Honestly in the right hands that book could do a lot of good very quickly

I mean, killing those that want others dead for the crime of existing seems pretty water tight on morals and corruption. Don't stray from that rule and you should be fine.

I absolutely could not be trusted with such a book. That being said, I should absolutely have it,

I'm here to say it again : death note was mid

I'd just write the names of the entire Republican Party

I've got the hubris to think I'd be cool about it. Starts with billionaires and Republican leadership. Ends with "people who park in bike lanes".

The sci-fi version of that is “we built the torment nexus from that famous book ‘don’t build the torment nexus’”

I think a lot of people ignore the main issue with Death Note. I don't view it as depicting how anyone would be corrupted by power.

Light Yagami started out with an overinflated ego and impaired self control by virtue of being a teenager with good grades. He likely was also already a psychopath (though you can't give that diagnosis to a minor). He's effectively the male Japanese version of Elizabeth Holmes. That's what led to him becoming a megalomaniac.

Not everyone starts off with that set of circumstances, and conversely not everyone would go down the same route. But that's not the story the author wanted to write nor the story the audience wanted to consume. A good person using the Death Note to fix the world would get old really fast because there's little tension and intrigue. But someone being correpted by power down a path of evil? That's a story that can be interesting

I'm pretty sure I have the self control needed to use the Death Note responsibly tbh

I would kill people that don't deserve it (no one deserves it really), but those people, or rather groups of people, are inherently intertwined with the maintenance and proliferation of global power structures that feed off of inequality and suffering.

Their sudden absence will have unforeseeable consequences of course, but the world will be incredibly more based without them.

I’m pretty sure i’d be fine with it. Not because I’m special with perfect morals or sneaky and good at keeping below the radar, but because already nobody cares I exist, and only a handful even know. I’m invisible, and not interested in fame or whatever contrived nonsense, and my sleep schedule is a disaster, so nothing would point to me.

But if the worst people on earth start committing suicide at the end of a video of them divulging their deepest darkest secrets in great detail, you’ll know it was me.

our university had a book that actually killed a person via falling on their head. it was encased in this bulky jacket with metal edges. and for whatever reason it was relatively high up the bookshelf and the bookshelf was quite old and falling apart. So one day some dude decided to pull out a book from this bookshelf and it buckled and that bulky jacket book cracked his head open.

i would be afraid of the shinigami like do you imagine how creepy they would look irl

Question. If someone autographs that book would it be considered suicide? I am seriously curious about the legal implications here.