Light Yagami is Innocent.

Light Yagami is innocent of any evil whatsoever. His endeavor is extremely principled and disciplined, and it is nothing but the culmination of a moral teleology made possible by the intelligent employment of technology. The Death Note is a blessing which is tantamount to Intervention, since it gives the user the ability to carry out an absolute necessity. This absolute necessity is binding upon individuals, regardless of ability, so one cannot absolve oneself of this responsibility by being powerless, and only by the acquisition of the necessary strengths can one fulfill this moral burden. 
 
Light does all of this. One must remember that the villains of this story are an accurate reflection of the villains in contemporary life. We recognize their villainy as not just being “crime” but as a violation of the Common Good. All pretense to a theoretical “equality” between those individuals who would commit such acts and those who don’t is utterly eradicated by the act itself. It follows that there is no basis that the guilty parties should enjoy a “right” within the legal system, and the fact they do is merely representative of our limitations.
 
Yet a limitation is a thing which must exist in order that it be transcended. Any system which is judged to be imperfect only functions as a stepping-stone in order to produce a better system. That we lack the means to carry out an absolute necessity does not absolve us of this absolute necessity, but merely reinforces the necessity of working through the limitations of the present and transcending them.
 
To interfere with this transcendence is corruption. We all know that, when we witness evil, we must act in opposition to it; we are only circumscribed in our actions by sheer circumstance. We recognize that certain acts are just as irredeemable as their results are irreversible, and by the contrast in between those acts and their antitheses we recognize that it would be ideal were those who did commit those acts removed from life, that those who don’t might prosper and enjoy the fruits of innocence. There’s absolutely nothing which can justify the failure to perform such a removal; we have only failed to do so owing to a limitation which technology may one day help us overcome.
 
Light Yagami is simply one example of an individual who overcomes and reaches the domain of Justice. It is natural that this would put him  into conflict with those agents of corruption which would bind us to a system which is less effective in its duties. Yet that system is a murderer and violator insofar as it opposes the avenging force that is embodied in Light Yagami. Light Yagami, though not a “God” by formal definition, is an avatar, regardless, of transcendence.
 
This is that transcendence which we seek whenever any one of us performs a moral choice. The very act of choosing vindicates Light’s project, since all choices are directed to a Greater Good and, insofar as they affirm or they negate this Good, they separate the righteous from the base, for these are categories which are absolute, and ambiguity occurs within the realm of the potential, not in Action. 
 
Light, if he is not a God, is nonetheless a Man, and he is the ideal embodiment of Man: one who protects the innocent by punishing the guilty, (either part of which is binding) living in the realm of Action wherein the distinction is an Absolute. His project irrefutably succeeds in bettering the World for those who would perform less harm and so deserve the fruits of innocence. It only comes at the expense of those who, by all measurements, must be expendable, through no fault but their own, for Good and Evil are so fundamental that it is not prejudicial to distinguish them, and failing to remember this is nothing but corruption.
 
When you witness Evil and you wish that you could kill the perpetrator, do remember: you are in good company, for, though this be a work of fiction, what it represents may someday be a possibility, and, when that comes, only the fools, themselves expendable, will fail to realize their absolute necessity. The lessons represented by this work of Art will educate us to identify such traitors and to take the necessary measures in defiance of their ineffectiveness, for it is never moral.
 
Manhood is restrained psychopathy, as Peterson explains, and, if the price of social progress is psychopathy, then clinical psychology, as MacIntyre proves, is just another category that’s expendable. True sympathy must be as willing to resort to psychopathic practices in order to combat aggression as it wishes to preserve and to protect the innocent, for, in the realm of Action, all Men know, the one has absolutely no distinction from the other, and a coward’s lie can cost a life if it’s considered for a second, so the coward, if he dies before he finds the opportunity to propagate his lie, dies justly.
 
Light can never be a murderer, since all he does is antithetical to that which makes a murder murder, and it’s only murder which would vilify him, and it’s only murder which would kill him, as a scapegoat for its sins, in order to defend itself. Light dies for our sins and limitations, a representative of the transcendence that we someday might achieve, and, in that sense, at least, he is a God.
 
**[({R.G.)}]** 
   
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