At 8/4/10 12:02 PM, Cootie wrote:
But it was against criminals.
Including people who were not, note, sentenced to death via due process.
And he saved so many lives.
Can't be proven.
Crime slowed 70% and all wars stopped.
Yet there were hundreds of names to write in every day, as we can see towards the end. Also, I'm doubtful that would actually work in real life. Death penalty brutalizes the society. Remember the bit when his supporters rushed Near's hideout? He even himself admitted that loyal devotion to Kira doesn't change those people's inherent weakness.
Think of how many lives he saved by killing a bunch of evil people and only a handful of good ones.
First of all, how did he know everyone he killed was truly guilty? People were apparently even snitching anonymously over the net, probably on people they just had grudges against.
Also, at the point where the show ended, Kira's reign had been in place for years, and killed thousands, maybe tens or hundreds of thousands, we never get the actual figures. But since he's not only killing people in prison (because you know, fuck rehabilitation) but also outside, that would soon damage the infrastructure.
What resulted was basically a police state ruled by a murderous, anonymous big brother. People would go crazy paranoid. Everyone has skelletons in the closet, and Kira never actually gives any actual list of things that warrant the death penalty from him. I would be dead terrified, personally. What if he decides people recieving government benedfits need be gotten rid of? Or people who have been critical of law enforcement.
Obviously, this is just overanalyzing what is actually a pretty shallow show. But my view is that mass murder isn't justified, not for the greater good, even, and the idea of it being for the greater good is questionable.