Talk:Amon/@comment-71.234.208.124-20120605200803/@comment-98.200.164.35-20120609003053

Redemption means there is something for which or from which one needs to be redeemed. Using that word itself implies that Amon is not a noble person. If he were noble, there wouldn't be anything from which he needed to be redeemed, save for the same sort of human flaws, foibles, and failings that beset all of us, even the most noble and kind-hearted people.

I believe in redemption, too. I just don't believe Amon is a "good guy." Of course, HE thinks his intentions are "good." But that's the case with all of us: we only act for the sake of some good, whether it is a real or only apparent good, whether we think it good for others, or only ourselves.

The locus classicus of this would be Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost: "evil, be thou my good."