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Dan
Good and evil doesn't truly exist, it's just something 'Good' people use to distance themselves from 'Evil' people.
Death Note played on this theme from start to finish. Light, a selfish person bored with life, managed to get the power to change the world to how he wanted it. That power changed his thinking, changing him from simply arrogant to thinking he was better than everyone else, someone who deserved to rule. It's ironic that he would've most likely had a successful life catching criminals for the police if Ryuk had not decided to play.
Misa wasn't 'Evil' at all, just fucked up. She saw her parents murdered and their killer escape; enough to fuck up anyone. She started to think of Kira as a God once he killed her parents killers and devoted herself to him, not thinking of her actions as wrong since, in her eyes at least, Kira was justice. Stupidity and 'Evil' aren't the same.
If you want one character who's truly 'Evil' in Death Note, look no further than Ryuk. His boredom is the very reason everything in DN happened, playing on the desire for power all humans have to humour him. Light at least had a goal outside of making his life more interesting.
Now, about Rem being able to love - I don't see a problem with this. Death Gods are never said not to feel emotion and be different from each other, the only truth about Death Gods being they all live boring lives and require entertainment. Unlike Ryuk, Rem didn't act out of boredom, she actually cared and gave into her emotions to give her 'Good' something to do.
Simply put - Death Note tries to wave away notions of good and evil, showing a (as normal as possible) world in from the dark perspective of the author.
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