When I said ‘overall character’ I was trying to draw a contrast between, on the one hand, categorising people into ‘evil’ vs ‘normal’ in a binary way, and, on the other hand, a kind of evaluation that allows for gradations of being a bad actor. My lazy phrasing implied that I was interested in the good behaviour of Nonlinear staff as well as the bad, but I actually think it’s more worth paying one’s limited attention to the bad side in particular, in the same way that it makes more sense to launch an investigation when someone has potentially done something bad, than when someone has potentially done something good.
When I said ‘overall character’ I was trying to draw a contrast between, on the one hand, categorising people into ‘evil’ vs ‘normal’ in a binary way, and, on the other hand, a kind of evaluation that allows for gradations of being a bad actor. My lazy phrasing implied that I was interested in the good behaviour of Nonlinear staff as well as the bad, but I actually think it’s more worth paying one’s limited attention to the bad side in particular, in the same way that it makes more sense to launch an investigation when someone has potentially done something bad, than when someone has potentially done something good.