What Will You Do With A Death Note?

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What if you are given a death note, and anyone, whose name is written on it, shall die. What will you do with it?

如果給你一本死亡筆記，所有寫上名字的人都會掛，你會怎麼用它？

This is a situation, which comes from the famous anime "Death Note". Yagami, the main character of the anime, accidentally picked up a note, and then he uses this note to kill criminals, which highly decreases the crime rate. However, another main character, L, believes what Yagami does is wrong, and decides to figure out the killer(Yagami) and send him into jail. In order to get rid of L and become the ruler of the new world, Yagami starts to kill innocent people. He kills his girlfriend, kills some polices, and utilize others to achieve his goal, to help him kill people. At last, he even decides to kill his father.

在動漫「死亡筆記」中，夜神月就拿到了一本這樣的本子。剛開始，他用這個本子來殺罪犯，但後來出現了一個人，叫L，他決心要逮捕夜神月，為了逃脫追捕，月開始殺無辜的人，他甚至殺了他的女朋友，最後他還要殺他的父親，他要建立一個理想的國度。

If you are interested in this anime, I highly recommend you to watch the film, it is even more splendid than anime.

感興趣的朋友可以去看電影。

So what is the motivation for Yagami to kill people? There are mainly two reasons. First, Yagami has a deep feeling that law has its limit. It is real, there are still many criminals who remain unpunished. They are whether have tremendous money or power, which helps them hide away from the judgement. Second, Yagami wants to be the humen god. Having the power of killing, Yagami wants to change the world. He wants to be the ruler of the world, and be worshiped by people.

夜神月殺人有兩個原因。第一，他覺得法律有局限。第二，他想成為人類的神。

What is the Death Note really tells us? Everyone can be a demon, as long as he has the 「death note」. Rethinking of the world war two. Those soldiers, were they bad men? Or were they stone killers? Neither, they were just people like you and me, but how could they kill other men without a thinking? Because they have the guns, and this is why America tries hard to control guns these years. If a man has been given a weapon, he will utilize it, for killing and murdering. Imagining if everyone in our world is given a weapon, at least half of the human species will be erased. In this case, not a single man should have the power to kill others, it is for the law to judge a persons crime.

如果給了人們「死亡筆記」,他們會成為惡魔，他們一定是會濫殺無辜的，所以，人們不能有能力殺人，法律才是定奪一個人罪行的根據。

Death note, should not be allowed.

死亡筆記，不應該被允許。