What the fuck is OOP smoking?

Also, they’re just trying to stir up drama. Fuck them, they’re an asshole for that

Dude, we’re in a thread about the morality of using a Death Note, not debating whether to strap up with a machine gun and becoming an insurgenct. You’ve gone off on a completely unrelated tangent here

They defaulted to a lack of empathy with those affected by their actions and got defensive when challenged on that.

Is it truly a lack of empathy to look at the pain and suffering a relatively small number of people are inflicting on the rest of the world and be disgusted by it? The health insurance CEO that got Luigi’d is respobsible for 10’s of millions of deaths. Elon Musk and DOGE removing USAID killed over 100,000 children worldwide. And Peter Thiel is literally trying to recreate 1984. How you consider anger over that a “lack of empathy”?

Also consider that if the elites that are trying to oppress the world are ever taken out by a Death Note, their friends and family will still be significantly better off than the oppressed ever would. As in, they still would never need to work a day in their lives and still be well off. It’s hard to feel particularly sorry for them whem they have so much comfort that a small reduction would greatly benefit hundreds of millions of otherd.

Being friends or family of someone who got murdered sucks.

I don’t give a fuck about the family of the health insurance CEO that got Luigi’d. They got their fortune from killing millions of Americans, and they still get to be stupidly rich for the rest of their lives.

If someone used a Death Note to take out the 100 most wealthy individuals in the world, you’d save hundreds of thousands of lives and improve the lives of orders of magnitude more people than that.

The entire theme of Death Note is that power turns people into sociopaths

First off, sociopathy isn’t a thing. It’s a made up term a fake psychologist made up to put people on death row in Texas for personal gain. Go listen to the Behind the Bastards episode on it. The actual diagnosis is “psychopathy”

Second, Light Yagami was already a psychopath at the start. Notice how in the show that there were 2 others that held the Death Note and they didn’t go mad with power over it.

yet this comment section seems to be teeming with people who are equally immature.

Look at all of the growing injustice and inequality in the world, spurred on by CEOs, dictators, and billionaires. Just look at health insurance, where hundreds of thousands die each year from denial of care. Look at Elon Musk and DOGE defunding USAID, which resulted in over 100,000 children dying across the world. Look at the destruction and death that Russia has brought to Ukraine to try and conquer them.

Look at everyone in this thread who looks at all of that pain and misery and would want to do something about it. You’re calling them immature? No, you’re the one who’s immature, with all of your bullshit pearl-clutching.

Here’s a bit of a tangent: when the US invaded Vietnam, there were a lot of incidents where troops were ordered to just wipe out villages of people who had nothing to do with the war, including women and children. There was also a high rate of soldiers “snapping” and shooting their officers in retaliation. Those soldiers didn’t “snap”, they were the sane ones.

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 most 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.

Insisting that tropes are universally true just because they’re repeated is absurd. It’s something a child would think up.

Go look at history. There’s plenty of examples of people who do the right thing when in positions of power. This is because power doesn’t corrupt - it reveals who people truly are. It’s just that selfish people are more likely to seek out power for personal gain.

Eventually you run out of monsters to fill the position (and the supporting positions below). At that point you now have people willing to make positive changes in the world in positions of power

I think a lot of people ignore the main issue with Death Note. I don’t view it as depicting how anyone would be corrupted by power.

Light Yagami started out with an overinflated ego and impaired self control by virtue of being a teenager with good grades. He likely was also already a psychopath (though you can’t give that diagnosis to a minor). He’s effectively the male Japanese version of Elizabeth Holmes. That’s what led to him becoming a megalomaniac.

Not everyone starts off with that set of circumstances, and conversely not everyone would go down the same route. But that’s not the story the author wanted to write nor the story the audience wanted to consume. A good person using the Death Note to fix the world would get old really fast because there’s little tension and intrigue. But someone being correpted by power down a path of evil? That’s a story that can be interesting

The only class you’d actually be targeting would be psychopaths tbh. And indirectly at that. So it’d kinda be hard to classify it as a genocide

Ooh fuck, they should put ointment on that burn

Says the centrist who’s fine with claiming to take the moral high ground so long as they can stay confortable

Then just get rid of the next monster. Eventually the hierarchy will learn and reform, if by no other means than by the individuals corrupting the structure being eliminated

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

(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

Yes

Sometimes it might be better to wait on excavation than to do it improperly.

Reminds me of they guy who went digging to find Troy, but thought it was deeper than it was. And he might have destroyed any remains of the city in the process of digging it up

So it was less of a “incest relationship”, and more a someone who wanted her brother back

Wasn’t there a scene where it was heavily implied that Suguha had just masturbated to Kirito? You’re writing an entire essay to argue against what the anime very directly states.

The series NEVER fantasized SA, it clearly shows how bad it is and has our protagonist stops it

Take a step back and actually loom at the show. None of the actions or plans for any of the villians ever make any sense. The sexual assualts are distractions to prevent the audience from realizing that. But the author picks distractions that he thinks are cool. It’s a tactic called ‘debate and switch’. It’s when the author writes themselves into a corner that they don’t want to address, so they have the villain do something ridiculously evil out of left field to distract the audience.

These reasons are why I can’t SAO haters, your heads so far up your ass

Ironic. A lot of us can actually tell when the author makes immature asspulls throughout the series. But you seem incapable of that and get irrationally angry about it.

What’s really sad is that I originally sympathized with you. I despise NGE and everyone who tries to push it into my face. But you’ve just been so unpleasant here that I don’t give a shit. Ta ta

Also as a sidenote: this asshole also wrote “glomping 2 years of cum into her pussy” in one of SAO’s side stories. The author hasn’t matured past age 14. Maybe that’s why you’re a fan of the series.

True. Though unfortunately Goblin Slayer ends up being uninteresting after season 1. I wouldn’t say it’s bland (because it still has a fair bit of violence), but it just seems to stall out

Suguha is explicitly stated to be Kirito’s cousin and was also raised as his sister. It’s alsoexplicitly stated that she was in love with Kirito. This is in the 2nd half of season 1, the Alfheim Online Arc.

And there’s also the scene where Asuna escapes from her cell in the 2nd half of season 1, where she ends up recaptured by guards who for some “mysterious” reason are tentacle monsters, and casually suggest tentacle raping Asuna before putting her back in her cage. And there is literally 0 point for the scene to be like this except the writer and anime studio wanted to suggest tentacle rape.

If you had instead said it’s just a couple of bad scenes in an otherwise good show, that’d be one thing. I wouldn’t agree, but I could at least respect that argument. But no, you didn’t make that argument. You instead feigned ignorance of a show you claim to be a fan of just to call me a poser.

And for the record, I watched through Gun Gale Online when it came out. The end of that was barely less gross than the Alfheim Arc.