Hi everyone, this is my first post that's not a comment. Let's stop and appreciate that.
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I've taken up reading the manga "Deathnote." The idea is that there's a notebook dropped on Earth by death gods that when you write someone's name in it they die. There's conditions and details to it, but that's the basic concept. In the manga a young, bored kid finds it and decides to make a perfect world by killing criminals.
If you found a notebook like that would you use it? Obviously, no one would ever really know except you. No one would ever come after you and punish you. Or if this idea gets you too squeamish, what if you had a notebook that whatever you wrote would happen? It didn't have to be about killing. It could be whatever you wrote. Would you use that kind of power or would you push it away?
4 comments:
I wouldn't use either. The Deathnote wouldn't really solve anything. Whoever you killed would just have someone new take their place. Probably even two people take their place.
The other notebook (let's call it the reality notebook, can you dig it?) I wouldn't use because life would be too easy. It would like playing a video game on god mode all the time. It's so easy it wouldn't be any fun.
I wouldn't use the Deathnote, but I would use the Realitynote. Like Rich said, killing people off doesn't solve much in the long run.
I would want to shape and twist reality though. That could be fun.
I would use both. I wouldn't kill people that are ruining the world, but I would off the occasional annoying person.
With the Realitynote I may give myself some extra cash so I could get some nice things. I've always wanted nice things. I see shallow people and think how they make it look fun. I've always wondered what it would be like to try.
I wouldn't try to play god. That sort of thing is best left to the professionals. I am not a professional.
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