I have thought about if I had a Death Note and the one thing that I would be deeply fascinated by is if it could cause things like people suddenly having Song of Saya style meat vision. If it could do things like that, then I’d probably be a little sadistic by making a few billionaires become “cursed” as a warning from “God” to get rid of their greed by getting rid of their wealth. That’s also presuming I would be also allowed to basically plant voices in their heads as well.

Feel like I could just get away with killing people who are like clinically brain dead and can’t be allowed to die due to religious or legal reasons.

I can barely be trusted with that, but I feel like that’s a limit I could stick to and spend the rest of my time just making sure the book doesn’t get into the wrong hands.

There’s still moral implications to being an angel of death and it could go wrong really easily but it feels much less tricky than deciding some dude fits my personal criteria of evil and thus deserves death.

i wont use that death note in the first place and i would likely burn it

https://youtu.be/kjrUOlK2714?is=A1Z1Yf7eUJ6NrAnI

I feel compelled to leave this here

Killing is the morally correct thing to do in acts of self defense

Billionaires, just by hoarding the wealth that they have and using it to run this system, are an everyday threat to the lives of the most vulnerable people in society

They are above the law. Nothing will happen to them if I don’t do something. That’s who I would go for without hesitation

None of that ego bullshit, no Kira nonsense. Just do what has to be done in whatever accidental or coincidental method

I feel like I would kind of have to, the potential upside is just way too big

From a strict utilitarian perspective, it’s easy to look at this as a trolley problem. I can easily think of a few monsters at the very top whose deaths would definitely save far more lives in exchange.

But the harder question I’d struggle with is, where to stop? I can start with the most obvious targets and feel no remorse, but how long do I keep going down the list for? What would really keep me up at night is wondering what’s worse: using it too much or not using it enough?

I would 100% go mad with power. Fully convince myself that I knew what was best for humanity and try to sculpt the world through deletion.

Yes.

However, in the long run the DeathNote would make me a corrupt PoS. I genuinely believe no one should have such power (DeathNote, Geass, Makima’s Control etc).

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.

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.

First I would rip out like 50 pages and give them to one of my closest friends to use as he sees fit. I trust him entirely.

Second I would write my own name in the deathnote, that I will die a peaceful death of natural causes at 100 years old. This will prevent anyone from writing my name in a deathnote since I don’t know how many others could be out there, and once someone’s name is written it cannot be written again.

But how would I use it? Tough question. You kill one dictator and an even worse one takes their place. There will always be wealthy people. Killing the top 1% just means there’s new people who are considered the top 1%. It would have to be some type of behavioral conditioning. Where everyone in the world is aware of some kind of super natural killer, but they only kill those who cause consistent and deliberate harm to others. I guess kind of like what Light wanted to do. Except I’d ignore the police entirely. Some dude named “Lind L. Taylor” is talking shit about me on TV? Cool.

Light’s biggest weakness was his ego. Too easily goaded into making mistakes. I’m fully aware I would be “giving up my humanity”. But instead of thinking about myself as a “God” I’d treat myself more as a “steward”. Someone doing out of some kind of obligation. I have the power to affect real change in the world, I’d be remissed if I didn’t at least TRY to do something.

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

I’d make Thanos look like a pacifist.

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.