I’d do the eye deal so that I could take out bad drivers. Just have sheets and sheets of “___ pulls over safely, parks, and turns off the car, then has a heart attack.” with a mount so that I could fill in the names as I go.

I have no idea what I would do, but I know it would destroy me, either from guilt due to inaction or guilt due to action.

killing the top 1% wealthiest world solve like 99% of issues

I’d make Thanos look like a pacifist.

I would absolutely use it. Billionaires, war criminals, fascists, they’d all be targets.

Once handed the death note, I’d give it a test run on a singular target, with very specific means of death. Just to make sure I’m not wasting my time.

Once it’s confirmed as functional, I’d set a date roughly six months in advance. Then I’d hop on Tor and do fuck loads of research for about 5 months, setting the date of death for those billionaires, war criminals, fascists, all for the same day. I’d try to make sure it’s a global thing, not just centered within “western” countries.

The world would go into a bit of a panick, as fuck loads of very powerful people would overnight be gone. The status quo of the world wouldn’t change too much I wouldn’t think, but the rich and powerful would have a wake up call. Some of them would be missed, some of them would have estates going to children. I wouldn’t target minors, but adult children who retain that lovecraftian wealth would themselves become targets for round two.

Round two would be significantly harder to implement. The rich and powerful that slipped through the cracks in the first round would be taking big steps to hide their presence. The research to find these traitors of humanity would get significantly harder. But just as before I’d set a date about 6 months out, and do 5 months of adding names with the date.

I’d like to hope that the second round would be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, and gets the currently rising tide of fascism to stop, wealth to become unwanted, etc. It will have hopefully established a pattern which makes those with the opportunity to become billionaires, war criminals, or prominent fascists to not go down that path.

Twice a year every year the process would continue, and every year it would get harder and harder to discover targets. But I think it would be the safest way for an individual to use the death note to move the world to the right track.

If you asked me this years ago I would have said no. Today though it would seem like such an opportunity to mitigate the effects of climate change and pollution and greed.

I’d write down every wealthy persons name I could find

No. I’m against death penalty and I extend that to also apply to the people I don’t like.

I’m not even going to read the other responses but I’ll make an educated guess that this is a minority view here.

The existence of the death note proves the existence of the afterlife, and as the one who found it I am clearly the predestined divine ruler of earth.

Using the death note causes ones soul to be irreparably marked and when you die your soul is obliterated (iirc the Shinigami eat it but it’s been a while so idk specifics end result is obliteration)

My death note would be used as a tool of power. First to create the ultimate prisoner’s dilemma. Simply write down the names of your accomplices, and they will be absolved of all crimes (go to heaven) while you will be given a title of nobility in the kingdom (might as well make your life worthwhile since you won’t get the afterlife).

I would even allow the justice system to use it as punishment. Have criminals sentenced to obliteration use it on criminals sentenced to mere death.

Scientists of course would be given a copy. Since it kills the heart, what about pacemakers? There’s a small delay in effect implying that it must travel at some speed, so does relatively matter and in principle could you outrun the effect? Can we draw power from soul obliteration? Can we draw power from the afterlife? Can we bridge into the afterlife and turn souls into power gems??? How does the paper know what language to use? Many tests to run, many sadistic villains with damned souls which I’ll have to run them.

Also since it would inevitably be used on me in some way, or I would inevitably be forced or tricked into using it, I’ll just have to die knowing the memory of tyranny will persist and make it into the afterlife.

That thing would be full in like, a few hours

I know of some powerful people I would want to write the name of. I’m not sure if it will end the wars and suffering they’ve caused, but I believe the world would be a better place without them.

I would use it. But I wouldn’t use it against regular people who are in jail, they are serving their time for their actions.

I would use it against those who have the resources to avoid jail time.

I’d simply write 1 entry:

• Every billionaire. Spontaneous combustion.

If I’m being completely honest, the first name I’d write would be mine.

No, not accidentally.

Oh yes, I’d probably end up with carpal tunnel syndrome from using it too much. Politicians, billionaires, CEOs, celebrities and that guys that parks his huge ass truck in a way that the hood is intruding on the sidewalk.

Also I’d try to do it in funny ways while they are on live-TV when possible, like the priest that got hit by the falling cross.