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CMV: Doing bad things doesn’t invalidate what you have done

Someone who I looked up to recently made some bad decisions, and it ended up completely destroying my view of them. I had put them on a sort of pedestal, as you do with people you look up to, but it made me very sad when they completely destroyed their reputation, and I wondered if I had just chosen the wrong person to look up to. I was talking to a friend about it a couple of days later, and he told me that even when someone messes up or does bad things, it shouldn’t take away from their accomplishments and what their redeemable qualities. This hit me hard, and i mulled it over for a few days. A couple of weeks later, I was in my US History class and, coincidentally, we were talking about the founding fathers and their hypocrisy in owning slaves. I know a lot of people think otherwise, but here’s my view point - despite many of the founding fathers owning slaves, I feel like that shouldn’t take away from the fact that they laid the foundations for a great nation. In the constitution, they said that they would strive for a “more perfect union,” admitting that they weren’t perfect but would try and strive towards it. Please disagree with me if you want, I’m excited to get input, and you’re an absolute champ for reading this far.
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I don't think this can just be reduced into a simple black and white view.

The point is that some people do actually do enough bad to outdo all of the good they did, and in these cases that should invalidate all of the good things they have done out of moral obligation if nothing else.

Hitler brought the German economy from the brink of collapse to a world superpower and made the trains run on time...don't think that overwrites the rest of the stuff he did.

That's just one example of many but the point stands, cases should be examined on their own merits.