Even if bad people are often extremely vital, their behaviour may counteract that vitality by making their lives more dangerous than the norm to increase the probability of their death at any time. Wretchard lists four infamous dirty rotten scoundrels with long lives. On the opposing team, Pope John Paul II, Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa and Bernard Marcus (still alive) are all famous people of good character with equally long lives.

If you could define one population of dead dirty rotten scoundrels and another population of dead straight arrows – and you took a large random sample of lifespans from both – I’m guessing that the sample mean life spans and the variances of those sample means would not be statistically different.