[ SECRET POST #3102 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3102 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]


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03.
[Video Games Awesome]


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04.
[Steven Universe]


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05.
[House MD]


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06.
[Blazing Saddles]


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07.
[My Love Story]


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08.
[Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares]


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09.
[Robert Vaughn, Jack Lemmon, William Shatner]


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10.
[MMOs]


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11.
[Death Note]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 019 secrets from Secret Submission Post #443.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[solticisekf]

He trusted newspapers to get the right man and never make a mistakes. I was waiting for Light to read an apology in a paper about how they mixed the criminal with someone else in the previous issue.

I believe the justice system in Japan is not so bad that he had to take it in his own hands. He could've stopped after he knew what the note did if he didn't like the results.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

What I mean is more that Light was emotionally incapable of stopping because to do so would mean he was a BAD PERSON according to his own moral system.

He killed a man. If he was less of a black and white thinker, he could have seen it as a tragic mistake, recognized how dangerous the Death Note was, gotten rid of it, and striven to do better.

But because he has such a very harsh sense of justice, to ADMIT to himself that he wrongfully killed a man (that he was now a murderer) would destroy him. So he can't -- he has to find some way to justify it to himself. And that means being God.

Japan's justice system, whether good or bad, doesn't even matter in that context, IMO.

Re: OP

[solticisekf]

I don't think it was explicitly written this way but it's a solid interpretation.
I was more mystified about L's cake intake and regarded Light as just an evil guy without much thought of why he kills killers when he's a killer himself.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the opposite!

I never really got into L (blasphemy I know!). I don't dislike him but I feel like we know so little about him that he's not particularly interesting to me. But I get that the lack of backstory can really interest a lot of people. Mysterious, enigmatic characters and all that.

With Light, it always seemed pretty clear to me that his "God of the New World" thing was a combination of him thinking himself better than others for so long and, as importantly, a defense mechanism to protect his ego (his view of himself as a good person) from the acts he'd carried out (murder) which so clearly went against the justice that his father taught him.

Granted, I might be talking out of my ass, but I think there's a lot of support for it in the manga.

Re: OP

[solticisekf]

because the God is beyond reproach? Makes sense that Light wants to avoid the self blame of murder. If he knew what the notebook did perhaps he wouldn't have used it.