• snoons@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I would kill people that don’t deserve it (no one deserves it really), but those people, or rather groups of people, are inherently intertwined with the maintenance and proliferation of global power structures that feed off of inequality and suffering.

    Their sudden absence will have unforeseeable consequences of course, but the world will be incredibly more based without them.

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      1 day ago

      The issue is that with a death note, you’re a global power structure that feeds off inequality and suffering now.

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        23 hours ago

        that feeds off inequality and suffering now

        How would that have any connection to a Death Note? You can’t just throw that accusation out there without logic backing it up

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          20 hours ago

          Getting murdered sucks. Being friends or family of someone who got murdered sucks. Using the Death Note inflicts great suffering.

          As long as the Death Note user remains anonymous they can avoid any sort of accountability, while they can hold others accountable to whatever standards they wish. Using the Death Note creates inequality between the holder and everyone else.

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              15 hours ago

              I dunno. They defaulted to a lack of empathy with those affected by their actions and got defensive when challenged on that. That seems like it could be enough to spiral like JK Rowling when put in a similar position of power and public scrutiny. With similarly catastrophic results - if not more so, given the power of the death note.

              (And to clarify: I don’t think they’re a terrible person. Most people have issues that, if expanded to horrifying scale by a weapon of mass destruction like the Death Note, would lead to horrible outcomes. Given what little interaction with them I’ve seen, I just don’t think they’re an exception).

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      23 hours ago

      (no one deserves it really)

      I call bullshit. Would you claim Hitler, Stalin, or Mao didn’t deserve death?

      Be careful when speaking in absolutes. The world is rarely black/white

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        22 hours ago

        Well, yeah. I believe in rehabilitive incarceration. Of course they likely wouldn’t be let out ever again, and given their control of their countries military; killing them would likely be the only option (unless we had a death note >:3).

        *Like they would have mandatory cognitive therapy which would create opportunities for them to right their wrongs as much as possible by communicating their new thought processes to their ‘followers’.

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          7 hours ago

          Of course they likely wouldn’t be let out ever again, and given their control of their countries military

          Except there’s historical examples of tyrants getting out of their sentences and taking control of their military. The notable that comes to mind is Napoleon.

          Not for a justice system that was developed hand-in-hand with the KKK (yes, the police really did develop that way) then I’ll agree in that condition due to the system often being used to suppress minorities. But that’s not what’s being discussed here.