A Reflection Paper Presented to: Mr.

: Frans Nolasco Of The Philosophy Division on Ateneo de Davao University

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement on Philosophy 101

Carla Angela M. Venus BSAT- 2H

December 2012

Lights character in Death Note is very intelligent and bored. He is frustrated on how much the world lacks justice and how boring the world is. He believes the world is rotten so he uses his death note to eliminate all the evil in the world. Lights goal is to kill all the criminals in the world until only good people populate the world. But Lights begins getting cruel through the use of his death note. He loses his compassion and mercy to others. He thinks he is the only savior of everyone and that all his actions are justified.

According to John Rawls the order of a society should be decided from behind a veil of ignorance. Light did know everything the criminal did. And he decides if he should die or not which is wrong because the criminal has the right to be on trial.

Kantian ethics tells us that good will is the only good thing and that an action is only good if performed out of duty rather than out of

practical need or desire. Lights view is more human than that because he wanted to purge evil from the world not out of duty but because he wanted it. He is more human because he wanted to create a world, which is safer even though he is not the god. In the first part of the movie, he encountered a known serial killer who was supposed to be caught and persecuted but due to lack of evidence and how the killer pretends to be crazy, the victims did not have justice. He checked the status of the prisoners and no one got persecuted. That was the time he realized how poor the justice system was. The police did their part out of duty and nothing was really solved unlike Light, he did his part because he wanted to help.