Who wants(/can) to justify LIGHT's actions?

[LaoBoixLunatik]

Light is just doing what he believes as the right thing to do.
If you had the death note what would you do?
Especially since a shinigami is following him 24/7

[ets]

makes a good point on shinigami following him, but i'm sure he could of let him go earlier. He just belives an all good world is his choice!

[heresy]

can his actions be justified? lets face it, the guy is just pure evil...cute though,

[POONJAMBI]

you can easily justify them if you are a nutcase, because he is a nutcase. evident in like episode 2, i think a serious duh is in order

[Slider]

Originally Posted by Yuuji

Good point.

And yeah, in the movie LIght is protrayed differently.
But in the anime, he starts off only for 'justice' and then goes by the 'slippery slope'.

Really? I don't find ti all that different really. I mean, he started out good too, just wanted to bring "justice" to the world but eventually went a bit cuckoo with all the power.

[Anatol2054]

I can understand when he first tries if the deathnote works. Well... he doesn't really believe that it works at first and trying it on someone with hostages will at least save the hostages if it works.
But after that, what he does is not right anymore. At first he only kills mayor criminals and that could maybe be understood. But when he kills the fbi agents or even the lesser criminals (robbery, pickpocketing, etc.) that is definitely too much.
He doesn't care about their backgrounds.
Light kills X because X is a criminal.
That's how it works. Now if someone else had a deathnote and he notices: Light kills people. Killing people is a crime. So Light may look like a criminal in his eyes. If we look from Light's perspective now, it would be right if the second deathnote user killed Light without caring about why Light commited his murders.
Because of this, he would not be able to fit in the expectations he has in the people who may survive. If he is only killing people who do something wrong, and he would logically have to kill himself too, then that means that he does something wrong, too. It can't be justified.

[pumpkin_peppergirl]

I hate it when people do this.

You know, when they say that someone is either good or evil. That's seeing in black and white. Evil exists, as does good, but actions cannot be so easily categorized.

[Slider]

Originally Posted by pumpkin_peppergirl

I hate it when people do this.

You know, when they say that someone is either good or evil. That's seeing in black and white. Evil exists, as does good, but actions cannot be so easily categorized.

To each his own I guess. Usually it is easy to discern but not for this anime. But honestly, Light officially became evil when he started killing innocent people.

[j9918k]

the best answer would be what Light said himself: "if Kira wins he's justice, if he's cought he's evil". just by looking at human history you can see it's true.

[aBRkid]

It doesnt really matter since Near is probably going to find a way to kill him in the last episode. And since he's caught that means he's evil(what the above poster just said)