Why are local variables not initialized in Java?

Question

Was there any reason why the designers of Java felt that local variables should not be given a default value? Seriously, if instance variables can be given a default value,

Answer 1

Local variables are declared mostly to do some calculation. So its the programmer's decision to set the value of the variable and it should not take a default value. If the programmer, by mistake, did not initialize a local variable and it take default value, then the output could be some unexpected value. So in case of local variables, the compiler will ask the programmer to initialize with some value before they access the variable to avoid the usage of undefined values.