If You Were Given the Power to Kill, Would You Use it?

I just finished the Death Note anime finale and are now watching “Death Note: The Last Name.” For those who don’t know, it’s about a high school kid who finds a notebook. Whenever he writes someone’s name in it, he/she dies. He starts using the notebook to kill criminals and thinks himself as God. It made me think. If I found this notebook, would I use it?

At first, I would want to use the notebook to kill all the criminals who have hurt others in a horrible way, especially targeting children. However, I would think of what this power would do to me. It would change me into someone with a God complex because I would try and hurt anyone who would get in my way to stop me. My quest for justice would turn me into a heinous serial killer who thinks that what I am doing is right. My empathy would be driven away by my pride.

In the first opening for the anime, Light bites an apple. It’s like the forbidden fruit that God forbade Adam and Eve to eat. As we have heard, they did. The notebook is like the forbidden fruit because no one should have that power to kill. After they use the notebook, they would have knowledge that outcast them from heaven or hell.

Would I want to use the notebook? No. Maybe I say this because I have seen the anime and the movies (or in the process of), so I know what could be the results of having such power. I ask you. Would you use the notebook?

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Aldo Rey

I remember a quote from Call of Duty 4...

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power."

Said by none other than Abraham Lincoln. Anyway, I'd probably use the notebook. It's all about cost-benefit analysis. Someone has to do the dirty work sometimes. I think.

dcfemella

Don't you think that using the notebook would make you also use it to
kill innocent people, like detectives investigating you, who can
prevent you from using it?

Aldo Rey

I can't think of anyone I'd want dead at the moment. I probably won't find one until the next Hitler comes along. I'm pretty sure I won't use that power just to get rid of people who annoy me. But then again I've never really held that kind of power before so who knows...

Amber S

Having read/watched, Hell no! But even before that I think I would have just kept the book and stashed it somewhere just so no one would write my name in it.

DCFemella

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