I mean, that just tells me that you can't back up your argument. We BARELY see him early in the manga before he gets the Death Note. All we see of him is that he's bored in school, and thinks that he experiences the same thing day in and day out. How many students feel that way? I often feel like I'm trapped in my life, that I'm bored with what's going on. Does that mean that I'm a horrible person? Does that mean that there's something wrong with me, that I'm going to go on a mass killing spree? Of course not! It just means that I'm a bored (now college) student.
The most we see of Raito without the Death Note influence is during the arc where he gives up his memories of it -- where he throws himself full force into finding and stopping Kira. He has absolutely no influence from the Death Note at that point, and the mangaka even stated in How To Read: 13 that that was the life he would have led had he never picked up the Death Note. I can go get the book out of my room, if you'd like, and find the exact quote.
So, I don't know, unless you think going into law enforcement to find world-class serial killers means you have something wrong with you and you're a terrible person, I really do think we were reading a different manga, because Light wasn't a horrible person to begin with -- the Death Note just corrupted him. Aside from which, it's not as if Ryuuk chose him -- it was pure chance that Raito happened to be the one to pick it up off the ground, and it wasn't Raito's "evilness" that made him interesting to Ryuuk, but rather, the schemes that he cooked up to hide what he was doing. It was only once he got caught that Ryuuk found him boring and wrote his name down.
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The most we see of Raito without the Death Note influence is during the arc where he gives up his memories of it -- where he throws himself full force into finding and stopping Kira. He has absolutely no influence from the Death Note at that point, and the mangaka even stated in How To Read: 13 that that was the life he would have led had he never picked up the Death Note. I can go get the book out of my room, if you'd like, and find the exact quote.
So, I don't know, unless you think going into law enforcement to find world-class serial killers means you have something wrong with you and you're a terrible person, I really do think we were reading a different manga, because Light wasn't a horrible person to begin with -- the Death Note just corrupted him. Aside from which, it's not as if Ryuuk chose him -- it was pure chance that Raito happened to be the one to pick it up off the ground, and it wasn't Raito's "evilness" that made him interesting to Ryuuk, but rather, the schemes that he cooked up to hide what he was doing. It was only once he got caught that Ryuuk found him boring and wrote his name down.