For anyone that doesn’t know about Death Note it’s a fictional notebook from a death god. If you write someone’s name in it while picturing thier face they die. You can also manipulate thier actions and method of death to some extent.
I don’t know anything about this ‘death note’. All I know is that people drown in their own bath tubs every day. Even rich and powerful people.
Make my claim on the notebook by writing my name on the first page
Dies of heart attack in 6 minutes.
Elon Musk, death from asphyxiation being up Trumps ass for too long.
Followed by Trump, death from rectal bleeding.
It would all be on live television.
Followed by RFKJ with a juxtaposition of TB, polio, measles, smallpox, and food poisoning from raw milk.
“How did he die?”
“Believe it or not, every single preventable illness you can imagine. It’s the damnedest thing.”
The reverse Monty Burns
So how would that play out? I’m sure secret service would step in to stop Elmo from attacking Donny. But then Donny would drop trow and attack Elmo with his rear?
Both get held down from secret service and just die from heart attacks.
Performative art. They would be on stage at the next clan rally and say look at this and both be willing participants in the head up ass shoving process.
The first name I write down is my own. For I know what I will do with it, and I know that while I would start with the notion of doing only what i feel must I know i will grow corrupt. On the first page I will write detailed instructions disposing of this book, and then I will sign it, knowing I have literally signed my own death warrant, hoping that my will would be carried out that the book would be encased in a block of cement and buried deep.
Then I will start writing names.
And keep writing names.
Until that last day.
There are many in this world I would see removed from it For my niece’s sake. For all our sakes…
There would be no statements. No declarations. There would simply be. Murder, for that is what this is. me deciding that others should be denied their lives. Maybe the world improves with them removed from it. Hard to say. I clearly believe so given what I would be doing.
This wouldn’t stop future assholes.
No, but there is a limit to what any mortal man could do. I could become a tyrant, but as kira learned. that has limits and i do not live in a world where people would fall over themselves to make mistakes in my favor.
I would do what I could, and then stare the shinigami in the eye as the hourglass runs out.
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You don’t need to hide the book right before you die. The shinigami it belongs to will take it back and presumably leave. They might stick around to give it to someone else but that’s their choice and nothing to worry about in your upcoming purgatory. Even if you did cement it and bury it where no human will ever find it, the shinigami can just phase through and grab it any time.
You leave Bill Gates alone!
I don’t care how much positive press he buys, he’s on the list. There are no good billionaires.
At least 95% of this wealth is going to donations when he dies and he’s not hoarding it like a dragon or burning the world down.
Hoarding it until he dies is still hoarding it.
There are no ethical billionaires because the act of hoarding a billion dollars is inherently unethical. Giving only some of it to charity is not enough to justify how much more damage was done in the first place.
There’s an old Indian story about a rich man who gives every beggar he sees a coin, until he has no more coins and is a beggar himself.
How much good did that man do by frittering away his wealth? You’re surely familiar with the adage, “It takes money to make money.”
Would you have a man like Gates blast out all his wealth, and then be unable to produce more to continue his philanthropy? Would you have him shut down his disease eradication and vaccination programs so as to not be an evil billionaire? Would that somehow clear his conscience? Or would it merely make you feel better?
Some of you have the financial sophistication of sophomores. And by “some”, I mean you !missingno@fedia.io.
A billionaire would need to give a coin every second of his life for millions of years to deplete their fortune. The rich man of the story wasn’t rich enough, or was giving much more than a coin.
How many people did he have to step on to hoard a billion dollars in the first place? I would rather he never have become a billionaire.
There are no ethical billionaires. Full stop.
The problem is he’s only making money, even his “charitable” actions are made in the interest of creating an entire environment that is more exploitative by his investments.
He did an AMA on reddit a few years ago, and when asked about his charitable ventures and investments, he mostly just made reference to teams of financiers doing “what they thought was best”.
Maybe he’s doing what he thinks is best… but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is what’s best for most people.
Frankly, his money would be best spent lobbying for progressive policies and funding candidates who fight for the working class. Everything else is a staying action at best, and “moral exploitation” at the least.
At best he gets 30 days warning.
Well death note only operates within 23 days time period. Which is weak sauce.
Are you talking about definite pedophile bill gates by chance?
Lol. He knows how to get off of the list. If anyone can donate fast enough to outrun a make believe magic book, he can.
Nice try, NSA
Write Kissinger’s name in it, just to be sure
Nothing. Anyone who uses the Death note cannot go to heaven or hell. That would basically confirm the existence of heaven and hell. My understanding is that heaven is infinite. Nothing in this finite world would be worth risking infinity in paradise. I would take it, chat with a god of death, ask many questions, and then decline.
Death Note ending spoilers
The real reason the Death Note user can’t go to heaven or hell is because there is no heaven or hell to begin with. Ryuk was just trolling Light when he told him that’s the price to use the Death Note.
So not using it won’t actually save your soul, because all souls become nothingness in the end no matter what.
Then do what? You still have it in your hands.
Question, do you have to write a person’s legal name or will it understand “Pumpkin Spice Hitler”?
Has to be their real name. In the case of those who had their names legally changed that’s something I’m not sure if the rules addressed.
Per the rules as written I’m going to say no. A person would have to go by a written name at the very least.
You have to use the target’s real name. This is why Light couldn’t just kill “L”, being known only by a pseudonym kept him safe.
Burn it. Sure there are people that need to die but I don’t want any risk anyone else gets access to this even at the expense of letting evil people live.
Write my name in the book. You’re welcome world!
remember you get to say how you die and I always wanted to be sexed to death by a group of beautiful women.
The Death Note doesn’t control the actions of anybody except the people named in the note, and if the condition cannot be fulfilled then they simply die of a heart attack.
So you’d have to be a truly terrible person to make that one happen.
You can write yourself into the state of doing it man, you can write that you think of nothing but this goal for months on end before you finally figure out the means.
I guess you could then infer my comment to mean that they were the type of person who wouldn’t be able to achieve such a goal, even with your conditions.
Certainly I wouldn’t be the sort to write such a comment!
BTW IIRC, the Death Note can only control people’s actions for a limited time. Something like 20 or 24 days.
I mean even if the note did control people wouldn’t you still be a truly terrible person?
Death by snu-snu got taken
Burn it. I’d like a Life Note though. To write a few names there just in case. Not decided if mine will be among them.
Pull an epic prank and make it look like a guest book somewhere.
Dozens of people die
“It’s just a prank, bro!”
My b. “Social Experiment”
I go on with my life. Death note has no power over me.
I’ve got some research to do and some very thoughtful application of this powerful, dangerous tool. I know where I’m starting though. In Minecraft.
