[L's cognizant of what can happen when people are too physically motivated. Judgmentally so, even... but in many ways, it's like judging one hungry, or one exhausted. The willpower to starve or stay awake is impressive, but not quite admirable. Are carnal pleasures the same? Or are they separate, because one can technically survive without sex?

L's eyes go to Light's, which are, conspicuously, on his lips.]

No path you could have taken would have been the same as mine. I wasn't a police officer.

[It was like calling a general a soldier, really.]

I wasn't an optimist, either. My job existed at all because it's like you said. Human beings are always going to look for ways to get ahead, and be unscrupulous, and take advantage of a situation where they stand to gain. Kira... your true enemy is that flawed race you think you're saving. You can't change human nature.