| I think it is almost certain that at least a handful of criminal-people that light killed were innocent or falsely accused. Light killed FBI agents and a guy who was simply doing his job by following him, so he already killed scores of innocent people. But we're talking about criminals only right? At the late stages when Kira became a world-known figure, even petty criminals were afraid that they might get killed by Kira, so it is possible that Kira killed a number of petty criminals (who'd probably spend up to 5 years in jail perhaps) especially after L'sdeath; thus people fear him. And since Kira would kill petty criminals, as well as famous top-criminals, it's logical to deduct that some of these people could have been innocent, but ended up in the death note because Kira had to fill his daily-required-number-of-kills goal. But then again, we need to define "innocent". A thief is a thief and the judge might gloss over the reasons to why a certain crime was committed. For example, some people steal because of desperation perhaps, but this usually results in prison time anyway. Some people kill in self-defense but aren't justified. I don't think Kira would check the backgrounds of every person he kills (especially in late stages) to find out if a criminal was truly guilty or deserved his punishment, thus he definitely would have killed some innocent people "by accident" during his reign. |
| By the law of large numbers, yes. When an experiment with multiple probabilistic outcomes is performed at a sufficently high number, the odds of each outcome will more or less reflect their statistical likelihoods. For instance, when you flip a coin enough times, heads-tails ratio will get closer and closer to fifty-fifty. By the same cloth, the more Light kills, the closer innocent/total gets to the statistical percentages of falsely convicted persons. If you, say, assume it's 1%, then that's still thousands of innocent people. Yeet. |
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