Posted: 5/27/2009 11:28:19 AM EDT
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There is a very popular Japanese anime series (and live action movies now) based on someone finding and using a "Death Note" to try and shape the world to his will.
A Death Note is basically a notebook that if you write someone's name in it while visualizing their face that person will die in 15 minutes of a heart attack. Furthermore, you can control the method and exact time of death as well as a persons actions just beforehand by writing the details after the name if yous so wish. The only cost is that if you use it, you will go to a sort of limbo state when you die but not really heaven or hell. Personally I am stuck between not using it at all because playing God can never lead to good things or on the opposite extreme having the world wake up the following day a very different place with quite a few less politicians that mysteriously confessed their every illegal act on camera before dying in very ironic ways. Is this a nerdy topic? Yes, I don't care I am curious to know how many people would let the desire to fix things get the better of them. poll incoming |