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If you had a death note, would you use it?
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No, it defaults to heart attack in 40 seconds if the cause of death is not possible within the time limit. This is tested by the evil business leaders who tried to give someone a cancer death.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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I think thats when he took the ability to see people's names when he looked at them.
Got em
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Maybe
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Light also killed people in the police database with criminal history when his dad was a freaking cop
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Alright, I got one. Never used it though.. too spooky
Jonneh3003
Banned
I don't think I would, couldn't imagine being responsible for someones death, even if it was a terrorist leader.
boneyjangles
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No. Not that some small part of me wouldn't want to use it, but I think not.
On a related note, anyone see 'The Box (2009).' Interesting, weird little movie, director of Donnie Darko. The plot is...
'A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.'
On a related note, anyone see 'The Box (2009).' Interesting, weird little movie, director of Donnie Darko. The plot is...
'A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.'
Pyramid head
Banned
Sure. I wouldn't be a bore with it like Light either, I'd get creative.
The newspapers probably wouldn't report on the details of how Donald Trump's body was discovered, but It would have been slumped in a corner with one end of those novelty eyeglasses drinking straws in his mouth, and the other end inserted into his femoral artery.
Would it be possible have Nigel Farrage die from of a series of helicopter crashes? Not just one single crash because the cunt already survived that, but as the result of combined injuries from, say, five helicopter crashes over a few weeks?
The Deathnote looked quite thin in the anime though and all my names would be followed by a paragraph of details, so that might be an issue.
The newspapers probably wouldn't report on the details of how Donald Trump's body was discovered, but It would have been slumped in a corner with one end of those novelty eyeglasses drinking straws in his mouth, and the other end inserted into his femoral artery.
Would it be possible have Nigel Farrage die from of a series of helicopter crashes? Not just one single crash because the cunt already survived that, but as the result of combined injuries from, say, five helicopter crashes over a few weeks?
The Deathnote looked quite thin in the anime though and all my names would be followed by a paragraph of details, so that might be an issue.
LookAtMeGo
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So many people in here on a list now. This thread is a trap.
I dont have it in me to kill anyone unless I was defending myself or a loved one. But if I could make some real piece of shit that likes to kill children or something disappear with a magic note then sure, why not.
I dont have it in me to kill anyone unless I was defending myself or a loved one. But if I could make some real piece of shit that likes to kill children or something disappear with a magic note then sure, why not.
Makoto-Yuki
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nope no way would i kill someone. it's not so much being locked up in prison that scares me but i wouldn't be able to live with myself. it would haunt me and drive me crazy. i could never take a life. if i did i'd probably end doing myself in too.
Absolutely not.
So if you saw someone starting a mass shooting, you would never intervene?
Not idealistic or committed enough to shape the world for the better good.
No longer subjected to terrible political decisions or from people of power because indirectly you can get what you want through the notebook. You're no longer the 99.9% or even the 0.1%, neither should you be conceited that you're playing God. But you're indeed an unique existence with lopsided power balance in your hands.
So why? The end justify the means? Nah not that noble.
Curiosity? Enjoyment? Boredom? Thrill? A combination of everything?
No idea as it's hard to pinpoint. But I think the ability to control things with respect your desire is a very alluring proposition. Speed up space travel development as far as possible in your life time? Perhaps. You get the point.
No longer subjected to terrible political decisions or from people of power because indirectly you can get what you want through the notebook. You're no longer the 99.9% or even the 0.1%, neither should you be conceited that you're playing God. But you're indeed an unique existence with lopsided power balance in your hands.
So why? The end justify the means? Nah not that noble.
Curiosity? Enjoyment? Boredom? Thrill? A combination of everything?
No idea as it's hard to pinpoint. But I think the ability to control things with respect your desire is a very alluring proposition. Speed up space travel development as far as possible in your life time? Perhaps. You get the point.
I would burn that book or probably put it somewhere where if i'm going to use it it will be an extreme circumstances and not willy nilly. I don't trust myself with that power or really anyone else nor am i smart enough to understand long term consequences. Ablosulte power corrupts and all that
Psycho_Mantis
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Team Light.
Unknown One
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I am an evil ass bastard, so yes. The GOP would be eradicated.
This. Someone in Iraq in 2002 writes "George Walker Bush" into the Death Note and we get a worse war than Iraq.
I have a death note.
We used one at the anime shop for our mailing list, and people would comment about how they didn't feel safe writing their own name in it, because they didn't want to die. The shop closed, and the death note went into a box somewhere, and I have no idea if they all died or not.
We used one at the anime shop for our mailing list, and people would comment about how they didn't feel safe writing their own name in it, because they didn't want to die. The shop closed, and the death note went into a box somewhere, and I have no idea if they all died or not.
I would like to think I would, but I don't think intervening would be the first thing that would cross my mind. But I can't really be sure how I would react when under such an adrenaline/stress rush. But people don't carry guns here (thankfully), me included obviously, so if I were to intervene I probably wouldn't achieve much against someone with a gun.
Linkstrikesback
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I'd use it, for sure.
Wouldn't go quite as psycho as Light, but the people who lead the brexit campaign would have probably regretted it by now. Especially since you get control of them to some extent before dying, lots of politicians would weirdly be exclaiming how brexit was a mistake, on public television, that they're sorry for lying to the public, that brexit won't be happening, then walking in to traffic.
Wouldn't go quite as psycho as Light, but the people who lead the brexit campaign would have probably regretted it by now. Especially since you get control of them to some extent before dying, lots of politicians would weirdly be exclaiming how brexit was a mistake, on public television, that they're sorry for lying to the public, that brexit won't be happening, then walking in to traffic.
striferser
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Sad to say that i might need to use it.
dark_chris
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Would all the same rules apply? I do believe you don't get to enjoy any sort of afterlife if you use it. So as tempting as it is, I will not.
texhnolyze
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No, I wouldn't. I'm no murderer.
I believe that there's a reason for everything that happen in this world, good or bad.
And made a shinigami eyes pact so my life span will be halted? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to get his/her name.
I'm no hero and that's not my responsibility. So no.
I believe that there's a reason for everything that happen in this world, good or bad.
And made a shinigami eyes pact so my life span will be halted? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to get his/her name.
I'm no hero and that's not my responsibility. So no.
There is no afterlife in Death Note. The whole "you will forfeit your soul" thing is a trick, because everyone goes to oblivion. There are no consequences other than the ones incurred in this life.
FunkyDealer
Banned
Would make for hell of an assisted suicide business...
Escape Goat
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why does everyone know what a death note is? I've never heard that term used before.
Saving the human species from global warming is worth the loss of my humanity and probably sanity, yes.
Also, i'm founding an internet-based religion. God wants you to be a good steward to this world, and is going to end you if you don't.
Also, i'm founding an internet-based religion. God wants you to be a good steward to this world, and is going to end you if you don't.
Psamtik. Death's Demise
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He's probably not the worst person on the planet, but he is absolutely the most dangerous.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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yeah i would and at the end of the cleansing i would write my name in, its only fair
Rimon-hanit
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Only for some really petty bullshit.
Would you still be able to call it an ethical decision at that point? At that moment, self-sacrifice would be the ethical choice if it means saving lots of people. It is easy to say not using the power is the ethical decision, but there are numerous scenario where it wouldn't be.
Generally speaking, I don't think the act of killing people in of itself is an effective means of effecting positive change. Assassinating terrorist leaders via drone strikes seems to have had minimal effect on bringing about any long-term reduction in the activity and organization of radical groups.
Let me use something of a strange example. Say that someone uses the Death Note to kill the entire US Government. The President, Vice President, entire House of Representatives, all one hundred Senators, and all current Supreme Court Justices. It would be an evil act that would throw our country into chaos for a time, but what would be the long term consequences? In time, stuff would get sorted out. The President would be replaced according to the order of succesion and special elections would be called to refill Congress. Before long, the US Government would be functioning again. And honestly? It's composition would still closely resemble what it it was beforehand, since the elected officials would still be representing the same people and interests that their predecessors did. They would have the same debates about the same issues as before. Since the same structure and organization is in place, it can recover to the previous status quo.
So killing people isn't something that can have a big positive effect on the world. I do believe that there are times when violence is justified, but in those situations actually killing people is never the goal. When you repulse an enemy attack, the goal isn't actually to kill the enemy, it is to stop the attack. Killing people is just the likely tragic consequence of that. When you apprach a situation with the mindset of killing an enemy, your goals and actions become perverted by that.
Killing people just adds more misery, hate, fear, and despair to the world. Effective policies for change in the world shouldn't rely on violence except when absolutely necessary. The problem is that violence, killing percieved enemies, persists for similar reasons to torture and the death penalty: there is an element of self-gratification to the act. Revenge and exerting power over people feels good. But walking down that road doesn't make the world a better place. Killing people you don't like to make yourself feel better is a twisted act that has no justification whatsoever.
Skyball Paint
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Man now I want a Dump Ass Note.
If I had the power to make Trump shit himself uncontrollably in public, we wouldn't be in this bind I'll tell you what.
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