(Double post, but whatever.
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I realized something while I was thinking of some Kira-catching-tactics in sewing class sinec I had nothing better to do sicne we had a sub, and figured something out.
**Spoilers**
At the end, Near says something like, "We're going to take you to jail since you're a mass murderer" despite that even if the public found out who Kira was, they would only support him and pwn off N and the others.
Had Ryuk stopped and realized "hey, they can't arrest him. The best they can do is kill him, so I don't have to wait for him to die in jail, which they probably won't do anyways."
Which leads me to wonder why it ended the way it did with these things. Was it because Ryuk was an idiot? Or because N was such an idiot that he thought he could actually win?