#the paper is from law and justice in japanese popular culture & everyone should read it

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okay what rules do you think kira would make up about day to day life? like minor everyday stuff.

(im sorry. i just saw a drawing of light saying 'misa premarital doing the do is a sin in kira's eyes' and im REELING)

ok so honestly i don't think that's a bad interpretation and there is in fact canonical backing for it. i haven't seen that drawing but in principle i don't disagree with it. because you are asking me specifically, though -- i am personally of the opinion that light doesn't have an issue with premarital sex because he is obsessed with convincing people he's having it. like literally any other explanation could have worked here:

my personal feeling is light is more concerned with preventing things that involve people with power abusing their station -- like bullying, for example, or people like demegawa who turn their platform into something grotesque and self-serving. he's a very pragmatic person and i don't think he cares about enforcing arbitrary rules. imo he's kind of going based off vibes rather than actually creating specific laws. sorry i realize this is probably meant to a jokey ask fgjlfghjl but this is something i think about constantly. here's a quote from the (excellent) paper 'the world is rotten': execution and power in death note and the japanese capital punishment system by ashley pearson:

Light never claims to be law, and his claims to being justice hint at an insideous division between the two terms, 'suggesting that justice might be something quite apart from law, something that exists outside the legal system.'

i think this is true, and it is also the reason he's not trying to replace the legal system with a brand-new set of laws; he's trying to get rid of it altogether.