David Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:21:59 -0400, "Frank J. Lhota"
> <FrankLho.NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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.
Well, it is an accurate explanation of what went wrong with Light's
approach to executions, but I agree that the legal framework in the U.S.
and Japan does have the checks and balances to deal with abuse. Light
would have been far better off if he had advocated changing Japanese
law, instead of becoming a law onto himself.
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