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Ten Years of Death Note: Is Light The Bad Guy?

Uh, why couldn't the Death Note have played a part in corrupting Light? We're talking about a supernatural notebook with the power to actually kill people! Last time I checked that's not exactly realistic.

When Light relinquished dn magic amnesia somehow made him even more ordinary and benevolent than he was before even getting it, which to me just stinks of the writer trying to make Light more sympathetic. This doesn't make the theory that dn exerts some will over Light preferable over Light gradually realizing what he can do and get away with using the book.

Dr. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist

Misa is an empty inside victim leafy sea dragon. A bit like pre New52 Harley Quinn.

That argument makes no sense to me. By that logic, I should not criticize PETA because they're just trying to save the poor widdle animals, just as Light is trying to save the poor widdle bystanders. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an animal rights organization that almost nobody takes seriously due to how their publicity stunts repeatedly undermine any message they want to tell. That is to say that they do such benevolent things such as desecrating the grave of the real life Colonel Sanders, taking a Seeing-Eye dog away from their owner, and euthanzing most of the animals they rescue under pretense that "it would be better that way".

^ The red glowing eyes? And wasn't that aspect of the Death Note included in the recent tv series? And what good is even having a Death Note if hardly anyone except really bad people use it? If those users would have gone on to do evil on their own, they wouldn't need a death note to accomplish it.

One more important thing that I believe no one else mentioned, Light was successful because he had followers. Not only that he lives in a modern age of mass social communication. Remember all those online groups that worshiped Kira and even sent him requests to kill certain people? And even that church were Light discovered Mikami? Mikami proved to be as bad as Light, if not worse, yet he had managed to become a fairly normal and successful person, albeit maybe a bit antisocial. He was not a criminal though he definitely had the capacity for evil, as well. Not only that, but like Light's father, he worked for the legal system. And what about that newscaster lady? She too willingly did Light's bidding. Yet, she seemed like a normal person and had never actually committed any crimes. Are these people any less culpable or less evil than Light?

Akane the Catgirl wrote:

That argument makes no sense to me. By that logic, I should not criticize PETA because they're just trying to save the poor widdle animals, just as Light is trying to save the poor widdle bystanders. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an animal rights organization that almost nobody takes seriously due to how their publicity stunts repeatedly undermine any message they want to tell. That is to say that they do such benevolent things such as desecrating the grave of the real life Colonel Sanders, taking a Seeing-Eye dog away from their owner, and euthanzing most of the animals they rescue under pretense that "it would be better that way".

PETA was the one responsible for making elephants illegal in circuses and, along with the movie Blackfish, terminated Sea World's orca breeding program. They do have a significant amount of power, though it seems to be concentrated on the California coast, as both of those movements began there and spread to the rest of the country.

Of course, for everyone, it is important to distinguish animal rights people from animal welfare people. PETA is the former; the Humane Society and WWF are the latter (with Greenpeace somewhere in between). Animal welfare activists are the people out in Africa trying to stop poachers from poisoning elephants and in Indonesia putting out wildfires designed to eliminate tigers, and they cannot stand being confused with animal rights activists. PETA is too petty and too obsessed with attracting attention to itself to help out with those causes.

PETA was the one responsible for making elephants illegal in circuses and, along with the movie Blackfish, terminated Sea World's orca breeding program. They do have a significant amount of power, though it seems to be concentrated on the California coast, as both of those movements began there and spread to the rest of the country.

How easy is it for third party hackers to manipulate online information to get rid of their own personal enemies?

See, it's speculated (but never confirmed) by Ryuk that the Death Note could have a corruptible influence on mortals who try it out.

Light was wrong about the world. He wasn't wrong about people longing for some omnipotent force to punish wicked and reward good in the world, maybe even through drastic methods, but he was wrong about being accepted as that God himself.