Theory of Innocence

• SCP-CN-002 is a highly developed sociological theory involving the most advanced theory and technology in many fields, proposed by Professor F████ ██ (deceased) at the age of 106. The author typically referred to it as the "Theory of Innocence", a succinct name for the fruit of sixty years of his work (beginning in 1976), comprising over 27,301 pages of highly specific theory including experiment logs. Simply put, this theory uses the concept of all human behavior possessing an innate "order-obedience". The total sum of the order-obedience of all of one person's actions is known as their "behavioral entropy". As a person's behavioral entropy increases, they become more and more likely to disobey "order"; conversely, as it decreases, they become more and more likely to obey "order". Through analysis of large tracing studies, Professor F████ ██ discovered that a person's behavioral entropy can be very precisely confirmed by two factors: one is the "G index", determined by a set of features in the person's genome, and the other is the "E index", obtained from the mathematical model created by Professor F████ ██ to analytically assess the environmental "cognitive manipulation events" (referred to as E-coherent operations) a person encounters in their lifetime. Following some mathematical processing, these two indices can be combined to produce the behavioral entropy, the "S index". Large-scale investigation has revealed that there is a critical value of the S index, which when exceeded is associated with the human subject intentionally committing a criminal offense with over 99% probability, and when not exceeded is conversely associated with a 99% probability of not committing a crime.
• After publishing the paper, Professor F████ ██ was arrested for the unethical and inhumane experiments detailed within, and died while being admitted due to old age.

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Excerpt from a Federal Supreme Court report (unpublished):
"Between 1956 and October 2016, Prof. F████ ██ left ████████ ██████ University and took up the post of director of an orphanage in ██████ State. Based on the information revealed in his "Theory of Innocence", he had put many of the children in the orphanage through negative influences, causing them to display behavior harmful to society in their adulthood. Without a single exception, they have either suffered injuries and died due to his work, or undergone legal action.
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Prof. F████ ██'s actions are an egregious violation of the inalienable rights granted to the people of the United States by the federal government in the Declaration of Independence. He has openly challenged the conscience of mankind and the moral bottom line of our society. His crimes are indefensible and unforgivable. Based on the above description, we believe the Supreme Court must charge Prof. F████ ██ with crimes against humanity."

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Impressions of Professor F████ ██ on orphanage staff:
"He's a good man. He treats the kids well, and never did anything bad to them. I don't know what experiments you're talking about, but I've never seen him lay a finger on the kids. He and his wife are both good people; it's a shame his wife had to die so soon. I went to her funeral, you know."
— Susan ████ (Caretaker at ██████ orphanage from 1976 to 1984)
"The little ones are very active and have very good appetites — the Director, or should I say the professor, he understood better than any of us how to get the kids to eat. He treated them very well… if you're asking what I saw on the job back then."
John ███ (Chef at ██████ orphanage from 1976 to 1978)
"I remember… it was probably in 1981, I hadn't been working there that long… I think it was in the fall, someone came in a car with a computer, and I and another male caretaker brought a few big, heavy boxes up to the Director's office. He told me that he had a plan to better take care of the children. At that time, I'd never seen a computer before… I'd only seen it in magazines and on the news. He was very happy at the time — definitely not the way you'd expect a 70-year-old to act. You know, that period I was there was when things were changing the fastest… but the old man was always ahead of the changes, even moreso than young people like me. He was the first person I knew to own a computer, the first I knew to own a phone, the first I knew to use the internet. He was always eager to expose the kids to new things and show them how wonderful the world was; he was the same to us. I have to say, I really liked him. Why else would I work for him for 18 years?"
Peter ████ (Caretaker at ██████ orphanage from 1981 to 1999)
"I always thought he was a good man… He was wonderful with the kids, and he was kind to us. If he treats the kids differently from each other, I've only noticed one thing: some of the kids he called to eat while they're playing with blocks, but for others he waited for them to finish.”
— Schweitz ██ ███ (Guard at ██████ orphanage from 1989 to 1993)
"I was very surprised when I arrived — it wasn't at all like… like what an orphanage should be; it was more modern than Princeton — computers, internet access, and everything was new, and I heard the director was almost 90 years old. He was very kind, quite good-humored, and loved to accompany the children — though I remember a few years later he would always lock himself up in the director's office, but I don't know what happened. (Q: When was it?) I don't quite remember… Probably after 2008?"
— Jessy █████ (Clerk at ██████ orphanage from 2005 to 2011)
"You can't treat him like that, you can't blame him for it! I don't care what he wrote in that thesis, I swear to god, I understand him!”
——Steve ██████（Clerk at ██████ orphanage from 2009 to September 2016, temporary director after Professor F████·██'s retirement, currently being investigated）

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Statement by Professor F████ ██ in prison:
"If I hadn't said it, you would have no way to know I did 'those' crimes — in reality, what crimes did I commit? II have not done anything disallowed by the law or by morals, and what I did to those children you would not have thought something to be stopped. Let's face the facts, after the results from this experiment were finalized, I can very confidently say that if I have a person's full genome and the details of their life before the age of sixteen, I can with 80 percent accuracy whether this person will be caught by you people, or executed, even if they seem to be completely ordinary and harmless now. And when the seeds of crime were planted in him, you didn't do anything. All criminals can be made to not commit crimes, as long as something small changes in their lives — or their genome — but the genome can't be changed after one is born, I'm very sure of it.
And now, let me ask you — not the two of you small fry, I'm sure that someone more important will hear what I'm saying sooner or later — when you executed a child brought up in the slums, did you treat him as a human being or not? I don't mean after he committed the crime, I meant before he became a death row criminal. As he was growing up, did you, or anyone at all, see him as a human being? Are human beings just products on an assembly line that can just be discarded when they break? If criminals are the enemies of society, then why does society continue to produce its own enemies from within? The law says it is fair. Where is it fair? Why would you want it to be fair? I will not blame you for the past, but from now on, you will never be able to avoid this issue. From now on, we will know whether any person will commit a crime, for anyone who does commit a crime, we will know what factors caused them to commit this crime, and that you did not prevent those factors from doing so, just as if he had been born a criminal, born to be imprisoned or even executed. If that is the case, you cannot say that these laws are fair or that they are the 'laws of the people'."

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Excerpt from Foundation interview with SCP-CN-002-2:
"… It's true, about two years ago — that is, 2014, I became aware of the professor's research. It was him who found me. I immediately discovered that his research was incredibly meaningful to me — you know, for ten or fifteen years I've constantly been pushing for several state governments to end the death penalty. I believe the death penalty is unnecessary, it's barbaric, it's rash and lacking in reflection. The death penalty cannot prevent people from committing those unforgivable crimes — by the time they decide to commit those crimes, they've already been pushed to the brink, and our society and law hastily resolve the matter — and by the time they've resolved it, they don't stop to think how they could have done better. The sad thing is, people are often so caught up in their hate that they forget about this. When I learned that one of the professor's subjects was still awaiting execution, I decided to stand up for him, because there was irrefutable evidence that he had committed murder exactly because of what society had done to him. … I don't know how I should feel about the professor. I respect him, but I definitely don't like him as a person.”

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Excerpt from message from SCP-CN-002-3:
“… Look, we gave you that lawyer, so I think that's enough reason for you to trust me. I'm a senator, W███ is a Supreme Court Justice. We are both decent people, we're smart, we know what's good for us, what's good for America. We would never want this to reach the public. It's in your best interest. And we're very much capable of minding our own business. So don't worry about us, okay?"

… In all honesty, there's one very important problem… To put it simply: We need Class Ds.