There's a difference between giving past figures a pass for horrible things, and invalidating them via nit-picking. Life is not black and white, so wanting to

There's a difference between giving past figures a pass for horrible things, and invalidating them via nit-picking. Life is not black and white, so wanting to see saints instead of flawed humans who made the world a bit or a lot better is probably not a great approach. Everybody will have some flaw if you look hard enough. People can also change. Maybe they would have benefited from growing up in a different environment. Breaking out of the way everybody around you thinks is hard enough in one area. Judging someone as a whole is pretty tricky, too. Generally this is left to deities. Is it possible to celebrate the good things someone has done without it being a full endorsement of everything they ever did and said?