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.
You leave Bill Gates alone
Edit: I was going to delete it, but I’ll let it stand.
I agree there are no good billionaires, but he’s mild in comparison.
My thought is his death doesn’t really change anything. Dude retired AGES ago and doesn’t have his hand in anything.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 [email protected].
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.
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.
You leave Gabe alone
Donald J. Trump - Death by french fry asphyxiation on live TV
DJ Vance - Killed by a falling piece of furniture
Elon Musk - Hit by a Cybertruck in a freak accident
Pete Hegseth - Alcohol poisoning
Robert F Kennedy Jr. - Brain aneurysm live on TV
Kash Patel - shot by an unknown professional hitman
Christy Noem - Hit by a speeding dump truck
Pam Bondi - Electrocuted by a faulty power line near her podium (live, of course)
Linda McMahon - Stone Cold Stunner by a J6’er
Marco Rubio - Smashes face through a plate glass window
Elise Stefanik - Falls out a window
Vladimir Putin - Poisoned by comrade
Benjamin Netanyahu - Islamic extremist knife attack
Kim Jong-un - Slips and falls down some stairs, breaking his neck
Xi Jinpeng - Exposure to toxic honey
I could go on and on, you get the idea…
This guy death notes
RIP DJ Vance, poor innocent bystander got got for no reason
Let’s just say “death by spiders in butthole” would be a very common thing for the next few days.
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.
A lot of people in the comments here are taking the high ground. “I wouldn’t use it. I’m not a killer. I’m better than that.”
But by not using it you are even more of a killer. This is a trolley problem. If you pull the right switch one evil psychopathic murderer dies, if you don’t pull the switch thousands of their innocent victims die. If you have the power to make that decision then the responsibility for the deaths falls on your shoulders, whether it’s one death or thousands.
So yeah, I’d use it. I’d start at the top of the psychopathic killer list and move down. I doubt I’d have to wonder when to stop. There are so many. But once they got the message I’d be more moderate and only use it when necessary.
This is a smooth brain take. We are not omniscient. Admitting we cannot know the consequences of our actions and refusing to kill people extra judicially is not murder or evil.
What do you think of the police response to the Uvalde school shooting? Was it justified for them to stand around and wait while Salvador Ramos was killing other students inside? Maybe they should have just asked him nicely to stop? What about Steven Paddock in Las Vegas? Or Omar Mateen in Orlando? Would you have stood by and watched while they were shooting people? Would you have thought “I can’t know how this will turn out so I’m going to let them continue.” Or, assuming it’s the only way to stop them, would you have killed them to save a large number of innocent lives?
To make it even more clear, Omar Mateen started the trolley rolling. Would you pull the track switch so it runs over Omar Mateen? Or would you stand by and watch as it runs over 50 innocent people?
This is a hypothetical question unrelated to whether you could do anything about it with a ‘death note’ book. I’m just curious to hear your thoughts.
And just so you know, you can make your point without insulting someone.
Police attacking active shooters is obviously different than vigilante justice.
Write my name in it so I don’t forget it’s mine
Nothing. I’m already murdering the exact amount of people I want to which is none.
I’d destroy it (if possible; I haven’t read all the rules), probably by burning. Such power would inevitably corrupt me, and the temptation to use it could become so great that merely hiding it (but keeping it intact) wouldn’t be sufficient. I’d also worry about it falling into worse hands than mine.
Question, do you have to write a person’s legal name or do you think it’ll understand “Crypto Hitler”?
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.
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.
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.
Idk, some of the planning when light kills the FBI agents seemed to be pretty elaborate, I’m sure there’s a time limit, but I don’t remember how long.
I mean even if the note did control people wouldn’t you still be a truly terrible person?
Idk. A magic death god notebook is pretty high concept
I will do “The Perfect Sucide” but after writing some rich person name.
The Perfect Suicide
Backpack full of C4 blows up while skydiving over the ocean? Nice
So in other words the post is, “Who would you kill if you could totally get away with it?”
If that’s how you want to see it.
I was browsing popular anime and saw Death Note and just felt like seeing what people respond with.
I have my own thoughts and expectations of myself but wanted to see what others would do.
So far only one person would kill for direct personal gain. Most would kill for “betterment” of a nation. The greater good so to speak.
Murder is still murder.
What about killing in a war? Is that murder?
What about killing to stop/prevent war?
Where do people draw the line. It seems like anonymous strangers here are more willing to end a life to “save lives.”
Many who live deserve death. Many who have died deserve life. Can you give it to them? Do not be so eager to deal out death in judgment.
I’d put it in a box and drop it in a river.
