Invariably I'd have drawn a comedy penis in there somewhere, and some poor lad somewhere would likely find his plonker refusing to work one night, or died with his old chap at full mast for maximum embarrassment.
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Or you accidentally murder some guy with the misfortune to be named "Dick".
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Remember, when someone unexpectedly kicks the bucket. That leads to a power vaccuum. Instead, you got to go after the middle managers. The people who carry out a politican's agenda. In theory, another faction would be able to capitalize on the situation. While taking out some politicans would be a net beneft, the fallout would be terrible. A civil war in nuclear armed Russia? Another Middle East war?
Now when it comes to billionaries and the other parasites. Take those fuckers out. The World doesn't have to worry about a corporate power vaccuum taking everyone down like a civil war in a country.
I mean think about how many thousands of middle managers you would have to kill to disrupt a large bureaucracy.
For a fraction of the same amount of deaths you could kill existing leaders, anyone that tries to replace them, and their rivals.
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It's still pretty unrealistic that anyone actually figured out how the deaths were occurring. Even if you thought "maybe it's magic" nobody else would take it seriously.
Light fucks up early on by killing the fake L on live TV, making it pretty clear there’s a person behind it.
L has a mega freak out when he does realize it’s magic, because it doesn’t fit with his logical view of the world.
Tbf the fake L did say it was a worldwide broadcast and Light wanted to be "god of a new world". It was a major fuck up no doubt, but if it was worldwide then L wouldn't have been able to narrow him down to a specific region of Japan, and Light would have been able to announce himself to the world.
Light is childish and hates to lose... because he's a high schooler. Idk his age but probably 17-18. Idk how many kids that age would have gotten as far as Light did.
and especially its done by a spirit/god they cant even see.
If you write "person xyz dies in a month" you have plenty of time to write down thousands of names before the first one dies, and in all this time you can always make the reasonable assumption that it won't work anyways.
I think I have to disagree on this one. Whether or not you believed it would work is irrelevant. The malicious intent is what matters here. You happened to find a supernaturally accursed notebook titled "Death Note" and you decide to write someone's name in it? That already crosses the moral line imo, independent of any actual effects.
Counterarguments welcome.
If I say, "Damn him!" about someone, and it turns out that Hell is real and that saying that actually causes people to be sent to Hell, am I morally culpable for that? Let's say I attempt to hex someone, knowing full well that it doesn't work, but just using it as a way to express my frustrations - but then it turns out hexes are real and I actually hexed them?
You can't read in a significant malicious intent if a person takes an action that they have every reason to believe is harmless.
I'd recommend reading some of The Illustrated Guide to Law which covers relevant concepts, albeit from a legal perspective rather than a moral one
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The intent is the important part, I think. When you say "damn him!" you (I imagine) aren't actually thinking of damning that person to hell, and seeing if it works.
It's more like pointing a gun you're pretty sure isn't loaded at someone's head and pulling the trigger. Even if you thought it wasn't loaded, you know exactly what you're doing if it happens to be.
No, that's completely different. Pointing an unloaded gun at someone is 1) a threat, because they might not know it's unloaded, 2) a violation of established rules and norms about firearm safety, which exist because 3) the gun may be loaded even if you believe it isn't, this is a fairly common cause of accidents.
What we're talking about with a Death Note is something so implausible that it could cause harm that no reasonable person would expect it to work. There's an enormous difference between "I thought the gun wasn't loaded but it was," and, "I thought magic wasn't real but it was.
I agree with someone in this thread who said you don't just get one freebie, but at least three. If I were on a jury and the prosecutor wanted to convince me that the defense knowingly killed people by writing names in a notebook, I imagine there is some finite number that would convince me, not only that it works, but that a reasonable person would expect it to work at the time they wrote the name - but that number might be like a dozen. It certainly wouldn't be one.
Is it malicious intent of you write your own name in it?
Step one to claiming ownership of a notebook, TBF.