This always bothered me about Death Note. Light vaguely decides to kill "all criminals" meaning all people in jail...

This always bothered me about Death Note. Light vaguely decides to kill "all criminals" meaning all people in jail, but how is he to know some of them weren't falsely convicted and don't belong in prison? He just kills them all indiscriminately. Are you telling me Obata NEVER thought of this?

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Obata thought of it but Light didn't because hes actually a spoiled brat dumbass

It's almost as if the story is telling you to not sympathise with him or something.

It doesn't matter. What matters that people will think that "if I do bad stuff, I'll die". The reason the crime rates dropped wasn't that he killed the criminals, but that people were too scared to be criminals

If you didn't catch on, Light never actually thought about what he was doing. "Taking out the trash" was always a superficial excuse for his power trip.

Making the mother of all omelettes here, Jack.
Can't fret over every broken egg.

This. Have these faggots never heard of religion? This is tutorial level shit for God

clearly he could've ignored that as a means to justify the end, nothing would change but there isn't a single monologue on that, isn't that suspicious? maybe they did not think of it. hmmm

Light had basically 0 long term sight to his goals and plans, everything he did was a calculated move in one direction each time.

>Light vaguely decides to kill "all criminals" meaning all people in jail, but how is he to know some of them weren't falsely convicted and don't belong in prison?
Yeah that's the flaw in logic when people try to do when "playing God" like that. We as humans can't read minds. We can only judge people based on evidence and very solid evidence. Even then the wrong kind of judgement might be made.

Light is still a human and is prone to making errors in judgement which needs guidance in order to make sound decisions. Ryuk just gives him fire to play with and just observes.

>evidence
Very solid testimony*
my bad

How would the educational system deal with the Kira events? Would there be a bigger inclination to become religious after they happened and atheism around the world would plummet?

I know that if I saw someone random being killed out of nowhere I'd become religious for sure.

Did you even watch/read death note?
Light, during the Yotsuba arc, when comparing the killings between the old Kira and new Kira notices that the original Kira did not target those who were truly repentant, or those no were incorrectly accused.

Didn't they actually show that in the series, like there was some cult of people worshipping Kira on TV and they acted just like televangelists. I forget the context but they must of pissed off Light or something because that's how Teru Mikami was introduced, he deleted them all.

They did, but I'm actually curious to see how that that'd affect the non-radical individual in the anime world.

Maybe secularism would stop being a thing and governments would enforce religion more like they did in the past because of Light's actions?

Yeah, because people would totally let the government infringe on their constitutional rights. Separation of church and state.

He doesn't give a single shit

WHAT?!

>like they did in the past
Hello from Saudi Arabia

I think he meant in the later arcs, especially after L's death.

Now that you mention it though, even in the early stuff, we had things like Light watching TV in his bag of potato chips and writing down names based on that. So he was getting names off the TV, so I can't imagine he was doing a very good job researching whether the person in question "deserved" to die.

And who names their kid Light anyway? His sister had a normal name so what the fuck was up with his name?

The author hated Light and was a L/Near self insert

Whats more likely is people stopped comitting very obvious crimes/crimes stopped being reported as much

user, it's a show written for teenagers, don't look for political sub-text in this, otherwise you'll start questioning the very definition of what constitutes a "criminal" depending on your ideology.
They just kept it simple and had him kill all the bad guys wearing the orange prison suit

>don't look for political subtext in the show where the villain literally cites crime rates in his final monologue as the reason why his plan was actually good

>implying light would even give a fuck
the guy got power mad as soon as he realized the death note was the real deal
he was some rich kid from high society raised in a seemingly functional nation by parents who likely educated him to believe the system functions as intended for the most part

he already looked down on filthy plebeians long before he got the death note, and got drunk on god complex after getting it
chances are he went for the heavy hitter criminals first before going through every random stoner who got jailed for a bag of weed

yes you don't, in the same way no one asks for Kira's fucking tax policy.
He only killed inmates throughout the show despite the fact that a corrupt politician does far more damage to society than someone convicted over a felony charge, you'll have to just suspend your disbelief when it comes to Kira's ideology.

You seem to be mistakenly under the impression that Light had anything other than a black and white mentality with a god complex.

Do remember that despite his intelligence he was just a kid in high school when he got the DN.

Based

Well, what about the new one shot where the U.S. President buys the Death Note? That's pretty political.

I thought the whole point was that Light was so gifted and sheltered that he was actually very immature inside, despite his outward demeanor. And as soon as he got his hands on some real genuine power, he was intoxicated by the thrill of something that was actually quite new to him, his life had always been about having so many huge responsibilities weighing him down, but no power to go with it. So he became totally intoxicated and his intelligence could only allow him to control his own actions up to a certain point.

After he killed L, he won, but he totally lost the plot and that's how he got skunked by Near-ly L, because he had never planned for battles after L.