1. Light initially has good intention for using the book .

He wants to kill criminals to cleanse the

world but in this crusade, it’s an unfortunate fact that Light isn’t only killing criminals. He tries to
kill L who was criticizing him and had intentions of capturing him and bringing him to justice .
The morality of this derives solely from his God complex; at least that’s how Light justifies it to
himself, but it’s wrong and indefensible to kill police and detectives for doing their jobs.

But it’s not just that. Light doesn’t verify the charges levelled against criminals he kills.The fact
is, 1 in 25 or 4% of inmates on Death Row in the US is innocent. Many who have actually been
executed have been exonerated after their deaths or doubt remains over whether they are
guilty. These are people on death row. The people we’d hopefully be the most sure about. The
people that others carefully check more often during and after conviction.There’s no exact
number of people that died due to Light’s actions. Even in the episode he says that he is fine
with his house burning down he that’s what it takes to keep others from attaining the book . So
this is what id Kira’s criminal liability . You get to see Light’s flawed thinking in action with his
interaction with Raye .

2. Light is a genius young boy who needs to do nothing else for a bright future. He is intelligent so
much so that he gets bored in classes, scores first on national examinations without even
studying and even pass easily after skipping about an year of school.

When one comes to think of such a person and his actions with Death Note by his side, it is very
easy to ask a question like "Was his mindset right?" or "Are his actions justified?" What We
easily forget is that firstly, it is very easy to question and comment on someone else's actions
and secondly, Our perceptions of Our own selves are extremely distorted. We think We wont do
something if We get a certain power, but in actuality, that is just because We don't actually have
that power.
I can say this based on human nature, that if someone would have got a power like Death Note
i.e. the power to kill somebody, one would never even think at first of killing criminals. All that
would generally come to the mind is killing people causing problem in one's own life and use it
to move ahead in life. Whereas many people would say that they wont think this way, but
people always forget that 'power changes a man'.

Light was above all this, because he didn't all this to move ahead in life. He was self competent
enough to make his own life. That is why, unlike a general human, he chose to do "social
service" as per his definition. He chose to do something about a stagnant problem in the world.
A problem which was growing and still does because the hands of everything moral is bound by
that morality itself. Now this behavior or mindset is in fact quite familiar to us , as this is what
Thanos ( avengers) wanted to do as well . He belived that the world is flawed and that we
wouldn’t all make it , so he erased half of the population .
Criminals could get away with heinous crimes just because the system needs to work by the
moral code of conduct. Morality, even though a good thing, binds and restrains hands, which is
why criminals always remain stronger than the law. The criminality is just increasing with time,
because that is how nature works, because in reality, even though one is supposed to be good,
being good is always more disadvantageous than being bad.
Light was one person who had the power and the courage to act to change what he felt was
wrong instead of people who just sit and moan and comment on the pathetic state. Many
people would say, and I agree, that no one person can get the right to judge another person's
life, but then what makes Chief Justice any more qualified? And what is being said is morally
right, but that just stops action, it doesn't solve the problem.

Light had the Death Note. He sacrificed his well settled and surely successful life for the sake of
acting against what he thinks was wrong. And not just what he thinks, what everybody agrees to
on the inside. But again I feel , we can do both as a person . He dint have to sacrifice his life and
go on this quest and although his intentions are good initially does not mean the actions are .
This is very similer to the movie Kingsmen : Secret Service. In the movie Valentino tries to do the
very same thing as Kira , eliminate the weak or the bad according to him .
The very reason Light had to become Kira was because the judicial system, no matter how good,
isn't ale to give the results. If someone does that, he certainly gets the right to have God
complex, because the only thing that separates God from humans is the power that God has;
the power to create, the power to kill.
My answer to the question is that one may say that if one agrees to Light, then he opposes L.
But that isn't so. Both have their own perceptions of justice and are willing to do what it takes to
make the change in the world that they want.
I don't like exactly to Light's mindset purely because of his means, but what I want to say is that I
don't disagree with his mindset. As in he had good intention of riding the world of the evil but I
believe no one not even god has the pure right to decide who gets to live and who gets to die .
He had the power and he was willing to be the change in the world with that power which is
great . With great power comes great responsibility they say , but what that the right approach
to thimngs , I don’t think so .