Am I the only one that see Stigler as clearly the better man in all this story? All Brown did (not counting the his bravery and the bravery of his crew, but lo

Am I the only one that see Stigler as clearly the better man in all this story? All Brown did (not counting the his bravery and the bravery of his crew, but looking just at the interaction Brown Stigler) was to spare the German plane after he helped him get out of that mess and send him away with a pointed gun warning and then shut up about the gesture and keep bombing German civilians until the end of the war.