User blog comment:Magma MK-II/Complete Monster: Characters to be removed/@comment-26884760-20160223172240

I know this is going to flare old flames but I am puzzled by one rule in regards to CM-dom.. the "can never have any redeeming qualities"..

Now I know the Alan Yates debates are tiresome as all hell but he does pose a real question near the end:

he was geniunely willing to stop the film (and by extension the massacre) to save his girlfriend and he was initially very shocked to see his friends die.. yes, he quickly turned on them as his psychosis dictated but the fact of the matter is even a psychopath like Yates was able to feel (at least partially) some tiny bit of empathy towards a few select people.. it means under all that disgustingness there is still a tiny bit of "good".. I mean if you think deep on it a character with absolutely no "good" is by default "Made of Evil" and thus can't be a CM.

So, I guess I ask how can we say CMs have zero good when even the most vile characters (like Yates) have shown very tiny amounts of good in them? (even if only for a brief moment)