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.

Death note rules.

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    9 days ago

    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.

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    9 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

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        8 days ago

        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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        9 days ago

        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.

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        9 days ago

        I don’t care how much positive press he buys, he’s on the list. There are no good billionaires.

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          9 days ago

          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.

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            9 days ago

            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.

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              9 days ago

              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 [email protected].

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                9 days ago

                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.

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                9 days ago

                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.

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                9 days ago

                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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

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      9 days ago

      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.

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    9 days ago

    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.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 days ago

      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.

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        9 days ago

        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.

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      9 days ago

      Followed by RFKJ with a juxtaposition of TB, polio, measles, smallpox, and food poisoning from raw milk.

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    9 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago
      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.

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        9 days ago

        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.

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          7 days ago

          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.

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            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.

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    9 days ago

    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.