Justice in Death Note
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y5QZ77-WYw&t=3s - 20:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jBbQ40nX3I - 10:24
Death Note is an anime that I have been hearing about for a while now. Even before I had a student
do his anime presentation on this anime, I had already been hearing about it, which probably won't
change anytime soon, but I never got around to watching it until recently since the video in the last
reflection I wrote reminded me of it (and mentioned another anime that I will talk about next week).
There are many things you can get out of Death Note, but I think the most obvious thing is the idea of
justice, which will be explained in this reflection with the help of the videos used in it.
The first video talks about what justice is and how it can be seen in Death Note, which is what
makes Death Note so interesting. Instead of focusing on what justice is, or rather what it can be, Death
Note focuses on how justice is, or can be, seen. There are many views of what justice actually is due
to the fact that justice is a rather subjective term. Justice can be objectively defined, which is actually
seen in the second video, but the problem with objective definitions is that they tend to be broad,
calling for subjectivity.
Besides this issue of objectivity vs. subjectivity in defining justice, the second video also points out
other reasons for why justice doesn't exist in Death Note. The one that I'm most interested in is that in
the Death Note universe, Heaven and Hell don't exist. If Heaven and Hell don't exist in the Death
Note universe, then would justice need to exist in this universe? Also, justice is decided by who wins,
which is also seen throughout history, but what does justice mean? Is it simply the opposite position of
who loses? What does justice mean when there are no heroes and villains in a story?
As mentioned in the first video, the previous questions, and others like it that are raised by this
anime, are what make Death Note so interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jBbQ40nX3I - 10:24
Death Note is an anime that I have been hearing about for a while now. Even before I had a student
do his anime presentation on this anime, I had already been hearing about it, which probably won't
change anytime soon, but I never got around to watching it until recently since the video in the last
reflection I wrote reminded me of it (and mentioned another anime that I will talk about next week).
There are many things you can get out of Death Note, but I think the most obvious thing is the idea of
justice, which will be explained in this reflection with the help of the videos used in it.
The first video talks about what justice is and how it can be seen in Death Note, which is what
makes Death Note so interesting. Instead of focusing on what justice is, or rather what it can be, Death
Note focuses on how justice is, or can be, seen. There are many views of what justice actually is due
to the fact that justice is a rather subjective term. Justice can be objectively defined, which is actually
seen in the second video, but the problem with objective definitions is that they tend to be broad,
calling for subjectivity.
Besides this issue of objectivity vs. subjectivity in defining justice, the second video also points out
other reasons for why justice doesn't exist in Death Note. The one that I'm most interested in is that in
the Death Note universe, Heaven and Hell don't exist. If Heaven and Hell don't exist in the Death
Note universe, then would justice need to exist in this universe? Also, justice is decided by who wins,
which is also seen throughout history, but what does justice mean? Is it simply the opposite position of
who loses? What does justice mean when there are no heroes and villains in a story?
As mentioned in the first video, the previous questions, and others like it that are raised by this
anime, are what make Death Note so interesting.
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