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I think that's one thing I couldn't connect with with Death Note. Why bother going after criminals when there are tinpot dictators out there?
Because Light isn't a good person who's corrupted by power, he's a teen with a superiority complex who suddenly gets the power to kill a bunch of people. He is the tinpot dictator.
Yeah, pretty much. He's supposedly well educated, but has such a narrow world view.
This is very, very true.
He's mostly perceived as the good guy, because he's the protagonist. And protagonists can get away with quite a bit of f'd up stuff.
Yes. Also, most criminals are not evil, they were forced to do crime due to socioeconomic factors. Factors influenced by billionaires and politicians.
I wonder if the Sarin Gas Attacks were an influence. At the time, the perpetrator's executions still hadn't happened yet and even discarding moral absolutism, they weren't exactly motivated by needs or profits.