[POLL] DEATH NOTE - WAS LIGHT YAGAMI RIGHT?

Seriously? He wasn't tried to create a perfect world, he've tried to create his own world. Ultimate power - that's the only thing he cared about.
Also there is no such thing as perfect world. Perfection is relative. The only possible world without killing is world without living creatures with free will. I see no perfection in this.

It doesn't matter to me if the guy wants to create a world for himself and rule us. If this is the price to pay for a world devoid of crime, hate, pain, sadness, etc. then I gladly accept the deal. I'd also take his place in a heartbeat.

Light did become power-hungry after a while, strayed from his initial plan to create such a world and made mistakes because of his pride, and that is why he could finally be considered an evil guy without a doubt. But in the beginning, despite the mean being questionable, the objective was 100% righteous and altruistic.
That's why I enjoyed Death Note. It offered a different perspective on a matter that we often consider to be dichotomous and absolute.

I was pissed off when I reached the ending :)

No, Light was a simply an immature high school teenager trying to create his own selfish world. He was smart, but he was also crazy while thinking he could become god and rule the world with his tyranny methods.

If there were no criminals, those in the army and police would be out of jobs and that 's another issue. Thus, without criminals and wars, we wouldn't have shooting games being made. :P

I never trust on him, he killed people "because", you know the reason, but he seems to do it because he enjoyed to kill more than creating a perfect world (somehow I find many flaws on his way to think that even contradict his way of thinking, although, I agree that you need that kind of personality to do this kind of series, similar case with Haruhi, I don't like her too much, but she was a character that fullfill the purpose of the story)

But either way I loved the fist episodes and if they had keep it in that way it would be one of my favorites, but after Misa takes part of the series all goes downhill, and later with L it really has nothing more to show so I drop it after some episodes with M and N so it's considered as one of my worst anime and I became a Hater trying to defend my opinion just for fun against this overrated serie muahahaha.

I choose No, it wasn't btw

author=Marrend
My sole exposure to Death Note was the one Mafia game we did way-back-when. So, I have no clue what his vision was?

kill only criminals so that nobody would dare commit crimes.

Absolutely not. As much as it was his idea to eliminate crime - crime is relative. What if he decided all soldiers should be killed? What if he didn't like bananas and thought banana eaters should be killed?

As silly as that sounds, Light was bent mentally by the end of the series. It wouldn't surprise me and I would never want to put that much power in the hands of any one person.

Unless that person was me, obviously... and even I'm not that responsible :P

Like a lot of you already said, it's very subjective (right word to use?) to your opinion, personally I think his goal, at least initially was good, but his means were a tad messed up. That said I'm all for using the death note for criminals who commit murder or rape or other violent crimes, but petty crimes shouldn't be so harsh, an eye for an eye almost and I think I'm going off on a tangent here.

Needs to be a poll option for "This is stupid" or "I don't know what this poll is about." at all times, people!

author=Avee
Light did become power-hungry after a while, strayed from his initial plan to create such a world and made mistakes because of his pride, and that is why he could finally be considered an evil guy without a doubt. But in the beginning, despite the mean being questionable, the objective was 100% righteous and altruistic.

He was power-hungry from the start. He said he'd become the New World God in episode 1. He was an evil guy all the way though the anime. He didn't want to create a righteous world, he was just bored, because he exceeded in everything without any effort whatsoever (Likely also the reason he thought he could become god in the first place). You don't just become a psychotic supervillain all of a sudden. It was inside of him from the very beginning and presented itself through the Death Note. When the opportunity came for him to become an evil mastermind dictator, he jumped on it like a hungry hyena. There was nothing altruistic in his goals. Not a single thing.

I do not believe Light to be a righteous individual, but I do agree with him about rotten people needing eliminated. But I don't like the way he went about it. I felt Light should have taken care of real villains: dictators, mass murders in foreign governments, people who pay big money to poach endangered animals, people who knowingly pollute the environment for profits, crazy religious leaders the kind of people who think it is okay to kidnap and have sex with minors, and force them to have children, or the heads of religions that think its okay to oppress women and then honour kill them if they get raped, and lets not forget heads of major corporations that use child slave workers overseas to make a profit. Drug cartels, human traffickers, mafia etc.. Put Bush and Cheney on that list for war crimes too!

If Light had done this the world would have become a better place, because the people with power would finally have someone to answer to for their crimes. The people around the world would have loved him as well. Think about it, Kira kills Hitler or Kira saves the women of Afghanistan from being beheaded by Sharia law. People would be able to protect the environment from companies like Enron, we could advance green technology to the point where we have whole nations with clean sustainable power. Think about all the good people who have tried to make the world a better place for all what they could accomplish if greedy heartless individuals were wiped off the planet.

He did kill criminals like rapist, murders, and killers but these seem like small frys to me and most of these kind of people are the results of bad circumstances due to oppression by the government. Like in Indian, couples to prefer to have male children instead of female children, and they want people not to have sex outside marriage. This leads to a their society having more men than women, and these males are frustrated because they can not have sex openly. If they do they are look down upon. So crimes like rape rise. Or for instance poor people who steal food just to eat. In my opinion are not thieves, they are just trying to survive bad economical times due to the government's abuse.

( My opinion on rape is you serve 10 years in jail or more depending on severity of your crime, then when you are free for the next 10 years of your life the government deducts a percentage from your pay for damages done to the victim. Murders; if its a crime of passion then life in prison with the possibly of parole after 25 years. If its planned life in prison or death penalty.)