On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:21:59 -0400, "Frank J. Lhota"
<FrankLho.NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>David Johnston wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:50:52 -0400, "Frank J. Lhota"
>> <FrankLho.NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> In many ways, "Death Note" is a dramatization of the highly
contentious
>>> issue of the death penalty. Light Yagami's belief than a better world
by
>>> executing the worst criminals is a central tenant among death penalty
>>> advocates.
>>
>> He isn't restricting himself to the worst criminals or for that matter
>> to criminals at all.
>
>But that's just the point. At the start, Light said he'd use the death
>note to rid the world of hardened criminals. But how long was it that
>his mission expand from executing criminals to executing anyone who
>stood in the way of his ambitions? Power corrupts, absolute power
>corrupts absolutely, and no power is greater than the power over life
>and death.
Yeah. False analogy. There are countless people involved in modern
day applications of the death penalty in first world nations, none of
whom individually have all that much power, and none of whom are
unanswerable for their actions, no matter how extreme.
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