I wouldn't be surprised.

Fantastic acting. Easily in the top 10 most hated characters I've ever seen played.

Not all criminals are bad, and not all bad people are criminals. A lot of those conditions you listed are actually caused by a small number of evil rich fucks leeching off everyone else.

That's what I was saying...

Evil rich fucks => systemic pathways that give corrupting levels of power to individuals

I've definitely thought about how using dice to add randomness would be a good strategy, and I'd definitely use it if it were me.

But if you're doing 1d10 per day, that's going to add up quickly to the point where the quantity itself adds up to a pattern of "before the rich started dying" and "after the rich started dying". And that's what will lead to martyrdom.

You are after all talking about the deaths of 140-190ish public figures per month, every month. That will be noticed.

I'd say more would come along if you don't use the death note to effect long term change.

Bad people become bad people usually through lack of sufficient medical care, systemic pathways that give corrupting levels of power to individuals, or poverty.

Effect enough change that puts the world on the right track to solve these problems, and the amount of bad people down the line will decrease.

It would definitely be a self sacrifice with the whole purgatory thing.

Just out of curiosity, do you believe self defense can warrant killing? And what's your take on social murder?

Fair enough

We love you Miisha, please stick around

no conclusion as of yet

The answer is yes:

A person can shorten his/her own life by using the note.

https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note/Manga_Chapter_Rules

(Chapter 5)

I thought God was pretty against murder.

Depending on the religion god has commanded quite a fuck load of murder.

IIRC the means of death has to be something they would conceivable do, and in a very short time span of a few minutes.

So you can't have the targets say messages with information they didn't know, or have them take actions that would be too out of character, or long in duration.

And the process of having a billionaire give away all their wealth is a long process. At best it would take days, if not weeks for all their stocks, art, assets, money to be donated/sold/etc. It would get even worse with round two, because there would be far less willingness to take ownership of those wealth vehicles, knowing that there may be a risk of your own head being on the chopping block.

The closest would be having war criminals recant their actions, but that just takes up more space on the page, and more carpel tunnel.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

I've been toying with the idea ever since I watched the show. It is in effect, political fantasy masturbation.

But it is fun to jack off sometimes.

I could see myself making a short story on it. Definitely not a novel.