Give me the Death Note, I can be trusted to act rationally. The only “undeserving” to end up on it would be people who step through Metro doors and immediately stop, even though there’s people behind them.
More seriously I know the author has said it’s about power corrupting, but if that’s the story he wanted to tell then he should’ve chosen a different protagonist. Its also a silly mantra, we do not live in a Tolkien novel, power isn’t some supernatural force.
If he wanted it to be about how power corrupts, Light wouldn’t have been so damn enthusiastic about using it right from the get go.
Also the fear of the deathnote would be a more powerful tool than just killing every criminal.
For example: once a month, target the richest person on the Forbes list. Eventually they’d be scrambling to fall off that list
not even, deathnote can control what a person does before their death. Make them give away all their assets before dying just like light made criminals give out all the information about their buddies to the police.
I really want a communist version of the Death Note about some Left-Com or a trot or a reddit “anarchist” getting the book or something like that. Seeing them slowly understand what “authority” is could be cool