&gt;  Did you know him personally, or know someone who knew him personally, or is there some other reason beyond &quot;you profoundly disagreed with him&quot; that would lead you to calling him a &quot;terrible person&quot;?<p>Is there anyone you would call a terrible person? &quot;No&quot; is an OK answer here.<p>Are any of them people you did not know? Again, &quot;no&quot; is an OK answer here.<p>I&#x27;m not the poster you&#x27;re responding to, and I&#x27;m sympathetic to the idea that it&#x27;s not constructive to call someone a &quot;terrible person&quot;, but if we are to ever call people terrible, it seems like there are some public policy actions that might be sufficiently cruel or immoral to justify calling someone a public figure who sought and used extreme power for extreme evil a &quot;terrible person&quot; even without having first-hand knowledge of that person&#x27;s day-to-day life.<p>Or we could limit our condemnation to their actions and advocacy, not their whole person.