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I always assumed one of the points was that those two characters weren't as different as was openly stated, with the only real difference being which side of the law they were on.
L still does morally dubious things all the time. That whole fake L thing early on is psychotic and the morals of it are autistic technicalities (it was fine to use this guy as a human sacrifice because the state was gonna kill him anyway so we must assume he deserved it regardless). At the point that he gets Light's dad to fake like he's about to murder-suicide, the series is just really over the top about it. L isn't a good person lmao