Honestly in the right hands that book could do a lot of good very quickly
ah yes
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Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seriously. Also, I can’t imagine what good people I would write down after being corrupted by power that would outweigh the first three names I would choose immediately after getting the book.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Same as the death penalty IRL. You can’t know that person x is guilty and that person x not existing will make things better.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Counterpoint - you can know if leader of country x is guilty of killing others if they say they’ve done it quite openly and want to do more of it.
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
yeah, light literally monologes about becoming god of the world like…5m after confirming the book is real. dude clearly had issues
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That doesn’t solve the issue of you not having perfect information, which the post alludes to.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Do we really need perfect information for the likes of Trump, Putin, et al?
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
List of KKK members, done. List of proud boy members, done. They don’t exactly make it difficult to deduce.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago What about people who make fun of my farts
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They already ded, they just still walking.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago Ah so you’d kill all of the members of Hamas then. That’s what you obviously meant, because you everyone agrees on which people you mean when you say “those that want others dead for the crime of existing.” Completely water tight! Definitely not at all dependent on the arbitrariness of which information you’ve been exposed to.
- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I dunno. You sound kinda like hamas over there.
I’m just on a list because I was raving about our local hummus guy and apparently I smoked too much and had a lisp.
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
yah, was gonna say. as long as you don’t start a cult and start drinking your own coolaid, you’ll probubly be fine. but then we wouldn’t have as much of a story would we.
nightlily@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
So you want others who want others dead for the crime of existing, dead for the crime of existing?
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It isn’t a difficult concept. x wants nightlily dead for being German. y wants x dead for wanting Germans to be dead.
It isn’t recursive.
GreyCat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly. You get it ! You have to be intolerant of the intolerant.
FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
No dumbass, you literally just listed their crime, its not “existing”. If they were just existing they wouldn’t be targeted, they wouldn’t be guilty of genocide.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago I’m here to say it again : death note was mid
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
High praise for that show.
- Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why? It dealt with the obvious themes of post 9/11 crime and surveillance with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, the main characters were exaggerated views of what a stupid person thinks a clever person is like, and everything was contrived.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’d just write the names of the entire Republican Party
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
if you’re doing that don’t forget the non gop that jump ship and conveniently vote with the gop in minimum quantities to win the vote. or just be lazy and all the politicians that aren’t demonstrably not evil
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That’s why they use fake names. To protect themselves.
logi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That is way, way, way too many people. Being summarily murdered from afar should be reserved for people currently engaged in a genocide or major war crimes. Not their milquetoast lackeys.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Okay then let me just check my notes on who that would be
the entire Republican party
Neat
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I absolutely could not be trusted with such a book. That being said, I should absolutely have it,
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hhmm… sounds trustworthy!
jonline@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
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”.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
I learned from hardcore history that everyone gets corrupted by power. I truly believe that i would ice people that would only benefit the rest of the world. D
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And thats where you write yourself and uncle ben tour way onto a better future
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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
mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
There are two extra stories that show what could happen. One is of a good person trying to do ‘good’, they killed themselves as soon as they were challenged.
If the story started with Light killing government figures and business moguls world wide, it would have to answer a lot of questions. It was a tighter story keeping it local.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Should be noted how Misa Amane isn’t really corrupted, just gulled into Light’s cult of celebrity and used up by his machinations.
I think a few more characters with a hand on the Death Note would have made the story better, to play out it’s influence on the user.
Aeao@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The sci-fi version of that is “we built the torment nexus from that famous book ‘don’t build the torment nexus’”
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure I have the self control needed to use the Death Note responsibly tbh
oatscoop@midwest.social 2 weeks ago I think the premise falls flat when you realize the “Death note” is real apart from the magical book.
People kill other people all the time by writing things down. Tyrants, people working for health insurance companies, etc.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You also wouldn’t get caught even if you used it irresponsibly…
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
The issue is that with a death note, you’re a global power structure that feeds off inequality and suffering now.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
that feeds off inequality and suffering now
How would that have any connection to a Death Note? You can’t just throw that accusation out there without logic backing it up
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
(no one deserves it really)
I call bullshit. Would you claim Hitler, Stalin, or Mao didn’t deserve death.
Be careful when speaking in absolutes. The world is rarely black/white
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Well, yeah. I believe in rehabilitive incarceration. Of course they likely wouldn’t be let out ever again, and given their control of their countries military; killing them would likely be the only option (unless we had a death note >:3).
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Question. If someone autographs that book would it be considered suicide? I am seriously curious about the legal implications here.
cally@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
i would be afraid of the shinigami like do you imagine how creepy they would look irl
- Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are multiple live action adaptations
Mika@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I’d run out of pages fast writing down every russian that’s responsible for genociding Ukrainians.
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Watched it for the first time this month, such a banger show
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This reminds me of Galadriel’s speech when Frodo offered her the ring.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
To be fair, no one outside the Epstein list is trully worth my wrath. Maybe some warlords?
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Yeah, and dictators, of course. And rapists that got away with it. And people that participate in genocide. And people that deliberately cause famine to cause genocide. And CEOs of companies that murder people through their policies and actions. And major shareholders of those companies that are pulling the strings. And…
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Woah there, I leave the rest of that shit to the law, because otherwise, I know I’d drop 60% of the planet.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In addition to a number of extremely harmful world leaders, CEOs, billionaires, rightwing “thought leaders”, and politicians… I definitely would be tempted to go scorched earth.
I probably would settle to just make the leaders of certain movements shame themselves publicly and so thoroughly before their death that those movements end from sheer embarrassment.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I wonder how long it would take for me to start straight up killing rival sports teams.
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
ITT: Megalomaniacs
Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Politicians already have that, but instead of a heart attack its just a special service member shoot someone.
spacegoat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would write “humans”
If you gave me the Death Note no one would ever see it again. Not even me.
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∗falls to death∗
raman_klogius@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Palpatine saying “ironic”
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
god that’s dangerous and cosy