Reply To: Caution: People in YWN-CR may be lesser than they appear

I think that even if that’s the case, the negative and positive sides of a person are not a see-saw that when one goes up, the other goes down. Therefore, being shown only the positive side is not distorting the true picture of the person, since that side is still as authentic as it would be with the entire negative too. People have a yetzer horah that they may act on, but even should they choose to, that doesn’t diminish the inner value of the person, or detract from his inherent good. It’s a different story altogether. If a person is portrayed in a good light here, unless he’s really good at faking (which in itself is good too, from the perspective of “fake it till you make it”), I say he truly is good.