Is he a good man?

No.

Yes.

>>159356445
he is the only real man created in God's image and so sharing God's will

>>159356445
No, the whole point of his character is that he is a narcissist who convinces himself he's right now matter what. His ego and god complex get in the way of his judgement. He's a skilled, competent, but flawed person.

>>159356445
No, and I'm glad he died like a dog

No. From day one he says that he wants to create a world only with people that *he* has judged to be decent, honest, and hardworking. By season 2 he's talking about killing lazy people. He's a fucking psychopath.

Yes. He reduced crime rates drastically. Deontologists are subhumans.

>>159356445
Depends on who you ask.

What does the reduction of crime all over the world entail? Less innocents being harmed, a more fair society, a safer society, etc.

He may have killed thousands of criminals, but doing so would have saved millions of innocents. The result should be obvious.

>>159357117
Until you take into account the fact that he was already planning to start killing people he considered to be lazy or dishonest. How long until he changes his definition of "dishonest" to "anyone who doesn't say that Kira is God"?

That and he had no problem killing innocents.

>>159356445
No, while he had lofty ideals, they were full of holes and hypocritical exceptions.

If he had a true God complex, he should not have lowered his ideals in any form. He should not have accepted collateral damage of any format to those he knew were in anyways righteous. His complete willingness to kill all law enforcers who came after him is an evil and wrong stance considering his ideals. If he had true confidence in himself, he would've challenged the police, L, anybody, without the use of the Death Note. Instead he killed without remorse. Let others kill without remorse. And barely batted an eye when people who did not qualify for his judgment died due to their mistakes.

If he were truly noble, he would've only let through judgement on those who truly deserved it, not simply those who opposed his world view. Though maybe the two were the same to him.

>>159356445
Ohba made it fairly clear that Light is evil when he killed the Raye and the FBI agents. Up until that point he just killed the very worst criminals.

>>159357445
>he would've challenged the police, L, anybody, without the use of the Death Note

As if a highschool kid could do that