I think it's interesting that you quote Stevenson (and more broadly draw in the restorative justice movement here) because one of the core pieces of restorative

I think it's interesting that you quote Stevenson (and more broadly draw in the restorative justice movement here) because one of the core pieces of restorative justice is admitting your wrongs and making concrete steps towards making amends and being a better person. I'm not sure that it has much useful to tell us about how to evaluate someone like Gandhi (or Churchill, or King). It's a useful framework in a conversation about what someone like James Gunn or Louis CK would need to do to make amends, but for dead people, I don't know if it's a particularly useful tool for evaluating someone like Gandhi (or King or Churchill). For the dead, I think we need to always resist the urge to make saints of humans, and to offer a clear-eyed accounting - what they did, right and wrong, as well as we can evaluate it. And we need to periodically reevaluate them, because things that weren't recognized as morally wrong at the time or shortly afterwards (like Churchill's war crimes and reprehensible racist attitudes, or Gandhi's refusal to condemn the caste system) or things that weren't widely known (like Gandhi's habit of sleeping nude with pre-teen and teenage girls) aren't always recognized as immoral in the first evaluation. It's not diminishing someone to evaluate them honestly, it's the only way to truly honor them.