I’ve definitely thought about how using dice to add randomness would be a good strategy, and I’d definitely use it if it were me.
But if you’re doing 1d10 per day, that’s going to add up quickly to the point where the quantity itself adds up to a pattern of “before the rich started dying” and “after the rich started dying”. And that’s what will lead to martyrdom.
You are after all talking about the deaths of 140-190ish public figures per month, every month. That will be noticed.
I’d say more would come along if you don’t use the death note to effect long term change.
Bad people become bad people usually through lack of sufficient medical care, systemic pathways that give corrupting levels of power to individuals, or poverty.
Effect enough change that puts the world on the right track to solve these problems, and the amount of bad people down the line will decrease.
It would definitely be a self sacrifice with the whole purgatory thing.
Just out of curiosity, do you believe self defense can warrant killing? And what’s your take on social murder?
We love you Miisha, please stick around
no conclusion as of yet
The answer is yes:
A person can shorten his/her own life by using the note.
https://deathnote.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note/Manga_Chapter_Rules
(Chapter 5)
I thought God was pretty against murder.
Depending on the religion god has commanded quite a fuck load of murder.
IIRC the means of death has to be something they would conceivable do, and in a very short time span of a few minutes.
So you can’t have the targets say messages with information they didn’t know, or have them take actions that would be too out of character, or long in duration.
And the process of having a billionaire give away all their wealth is a long process. At best it would take days, if not weeks for all their stocks, art, assets, money to be donated/sold/etc. It would get even worse with round two, because there would be far less willingness to take ownership of those wealth vehicles, knowing that there may be a risk of your own head being on the chopping block.
The closest would be having war criminals recant their actions, but that just takes up more space on the page, and more carpel tunnel.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
I’ve been toying with the idea ever since I watched the show. It is in effect, political fantasy masturbation.
But it is fun to jack off sometimes.
I could see myself making a short story on it. Definitely not a novel.
I would, however, methodize for death by natural causes if possible rather than direct violence.
Wihile I think that you’re right to recognize that there is a risk of these people becoming martyrs, I think any real quantity of people would become quickly recognized as violence regardless of the method of death.
For instance, if you killed a dozen billionaires, and one of them was Elon Musk, all the Musk stans would probably go into conspiracy theory mode, and call it an assassination.
If you kill hundreds of billionaires, then you’ll likely have nation states recognizing it as violence.
And I think that would the case regardless of the timing or means of deaths. A pattern would emerge eventually.
I would absolutely use it. Billionaires, war criminals, fascists, they’d all be targets.
Once handed the death note, I’d give it a test run on a singular target, with very specific means of death. Just to make sure I’m not wasting my time.
Once it’s confirmed as functional, I’d set a date roughly six months in advance. Then I’d hop on Tor and do fuck loads of research for about 5 months, setting the date of death for those billionaires, war criminals, fascists, all for the same day. I’d try to make sure it’s a global thing, not just centered within “western” countries.
The world would go into a bit of a panick, as fuck loads of very powerful people would overnight be gone. The status quo of the world wouldn’t change too much I wouldn’t think, but the rich and powerful would have a wake up call. Some of them would be missed, some of them would have estates going to children. I wouldn’t target minors, but adult children who retain that lovecraftian wealth would themselves become targets for round two.
Round two would be significantly harder to implement. The rich and powerful that slipped through the cracks in the first round would be taking big steps to hide their presence. The research to find these traitors of humanity would get significantly harder. But just as before I’d set a date about 6 months out, and do 5 months of adding names with the date.
I’d like to hope that the second round would be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, and gets the currently rising tide of fascism to stop, wealth to become unwanted, etc. It will have hopefully established a pattern which makes those with the opportunity to become billionaires, war criminals, or prominent fascists to not go down that path.
Twice a year every year the process would continue, and every year it would get harder and harder to discover targets. But I think it would be the safest way for an individual to use the death note to move the world to the right track.
Tbh I accidentally downvote posts here on there with my fat thumbs on mobile. May not be malicious.
Looks like I spoke too soon, my bad.
I must have gotten studies that looked at height confused with weight.
For the occupants, any pedestrian hit by an EV will generally be in worse condition than if they were hit by an ICE vehicle.
While this is ultimately good, the benefit can’t be applied so broadly as “the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars”.
Edit: /u/inclementimmigrant had it right, not me
The solution as always is to reduce car dependence.
That’s what I was saying…
Evil rich fucks => systemic pathways that give corrupting levels of power to individuals