 Nevertheless, Ohba states that Light never lost his love for his family since he viewed them as righteous people.Douglas Wolk of "Salon" describes Light as "coldly manipulative", "egomaniacal", and "an unrepentant serial killer, a butcher on an enormous scale" who is not "a Freddy Krueger, a monster who represents pure evil, or a Patrick Bateman, a demonic symbol of his age".Wolk describes Light as "the good guy, more or less" who genuinely believes that he holds "the moral high ground".