Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-34097347-20160924191552/@comment-29644557-20161103205806

I thought that too, but he is portrayed in a positive light throughout the show (much God/Jesus symbolism, especially in the openings and endings), and he does feel legitamately distraught when his father is killed (though, yes, part of it was because his plan failed). Towards the end he uses the Death Note to try to become a god, but at the beginning he was using it for arguably selfless and heroic means, though a bit extreme.

I'm simply questioning the criteria "Nothing justifies their crimes", when Light and his many followers/worshipers do (or at least attempt to) justify his actions by telling how he has, in the long run, cut down on crime and war as he planned. Several nations side with him, all agreeing to his actions (not the ones that were forced, the ones that legitamately agreed).

However, I do agree with both of you in the long run.