So who was right?

One of them had to be killed by blackmailing a deranged supernatural cuckold while the other was killed by either the comic relief character or his own partner depending on the version
I'll give it to the guy that didn't shit his pants two episodes in and kill someone on live TV after a schoolyard taunt

Am i the only one who liked near and mello? I mean their no where close to L, but not god awfu characters everyone paints them out to be.

its ok to kill people that want to discover my secret even if that its not a crime

What are kirafags excuses for that one?

the ends justify the means

Didn't happen.

Light should have used it to kill all the billionaires and incumbent politicians

Based

Light, up to a point. L was naive.

L how is this a question

Crime went down by a lot when Light was in charge and there seemed to be no downsides at all.

People sho shitalked Mello and especially Near are usually show watchers. The show really did them dirt. Near especially is by far the most moral of all the supergeniuses of the story, and the only one whose plans never involved intentionally killing/kidnapping/torturing someone

L turned a blind eye to felons like Weddy and Aiber if he could hire them. He planned to detain Light and Misa indefinitely without due process and even set up a phony murder-suicide with Light's dad that could have gone down for real.
Objectively speaking, Light did the most good for the world by far. If he hadn't fucked up so much early on and faked his death properly, he would've lived to an old age and found a worthy successor to pass the DN to, dying as the god he thought he'd be.

That's a difficult question.
In your image, L is clearly right, because he's standing on the right side, but I think both characters frequently switched between being left and right throughout the series.
Light and right are pronounced the same in Japanese, so it can be argued that Light was always Right from a certain perspective.

The only morally correct person is Souichiro Yagami. He did not approve of the Misa torture.

Ideologically I agree with Light.
Morally Near was the closest.
However Mello makes me feel things.

Should have used it to destroy capitalism

They were both vindicated in their own ways. Light, however, was willing to sacrifice innocent people to achieve his goals. L, afaik, never did that. L was more legalistic but I see that as being part of the game to him rather than legality being morality.

To say L was completely right doesn't sit well with me. L would let the most degenerate psychopaths rule society so long as they are legally untouchable. L could even be considered a tool to said psychopaths; provided they make the case interesting enough to him.

I give L the edge here but it's not a one-sided victory like some people want it to be. Light represents the rage of an unjust society. L reminds me of the god Saturn, who is a legalistic cannibal. Whereas Light is like Lucifer; misguided by his own pride.

If the public were allowed to have a say in the Kira case, then Light could very well have been acquitted or even protected. The governments kept the case's details classified.

If, in the real world, you told me there was a Japanese schoolboy killing people by writing their names in a magical notebook, I would insist you revise the entire legal code, and maybe toss science and academic doctrine on its head.

A god of death, a literal force of nature, chose this boy, so who are humans to stop them?

If I could kill people by scratching my nose while thinking about them, then you might want to contain me or kill me, sure, but I don't think there is any legal code that should make it illegal for me to do that. Not unless it was something humans could normally do.

Oops I meant Near

bootlicker

you browse Anon Babble so you'd be killed by him for being a lazy failure of the society

This was basically a critique on the death penalty older me would have said kira the current me realizes without 100 percent certainty of guilty it shouldn't be used

death penalty is required when the murderer refuses to reveal the location of victims' body to the family
Kira was wrong because he was dishing it left and right and wanted to kill lazy and unproductive people next

Life sentence is less expensive than death penalty anon

death penalty is required when the murderer refuses to reveal the location of victims' body to the family

I'm confused what if they just say they don't know
Yeah eventually kira tried to enforce his morals on everyone which never ends well maybe if he remained anonymous he would have been praised for it but since he was just human people began to wax poetically about morality

I don't know where is the body of the person I have been proven of murdering

death penalty

but he could be actually innocent

if you can argue that we don't have 100% certainly he did it, which can be the case, sure. I don't support death penalty for just 90% certainty, which is sufficient to secure guilt verdict in a criminal case. Which is also why Kira was wrong
But if there is, for example, a clear footage of the murder happening? No excuses.

The issue is that Kira just reads fucking news articles and kills people after like 2 minutes of thinking top. Fucking insane.

Proven how is my point do you have him on camera in 4k commiting the murder?

have you read the whole post?

Light was so right about killing CRIMINALS and SCUM that the authors had to make him a straw-man at the end of the series and pull out of their asses mistakes and two shitty characters like Melo and Near with all the resources in the planet to defend criminals and rapists. And yet MOST people agree with Light.

I personally don't believe a narcissistic teenager should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.

Proven doesn't mean anything recently In Texas there was DNA evidence exonerating a man who had been proven guilty the prosecutor wanted his execution stayed and the governor refused and carried out his execution proven doesn't mean anything with enough time and construed evidence I could convict you of murder too

Yeah light is right!!

Now I'm going to kill all people named [your name]

Why should people not named that worry?

Haven't touched death note yet but the books rules related to a specific face on top of the name right? It's not like writing down Jared Muller would kill every J.M. in the world.

The example is the point say he could kill indiscriminately would you be okay with it if everyone was fine with everyone named. Jake dying