What does “a better person” mean?
Would it perhaps be more helpful to ask whether a kollel man
is likely to be a better person than a non-kollel man?
[H]e is very old in his 90’s he cant learn anymore and he lost his filter and is kind of rude and blunt with people- saying whatever comes to his mind. Is he a worse person now that he’s old and more blunt now than he was 20 years ago?
Rav Avigdor Miller said that it is as if that person was niftar already. He is no longer that person. (If a person becomes senile and forgets all his learning, he’s obviously not going to arrive in the olam ha’emes as an
am ha’aretz .)