I'm not convinced you can separate a man from his actions. Do actions not offer a window into the true substance of a person’s character? Is it not our choices, our everyday habits, and the impact we have on others that reveal who we really are, regardless of where we sit on the privilege and suffering scales?
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become". (Carl Jung)
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Absolutely, but aren't those choices, habits and actions a result of all the things that weren't our choices? Genes, upbringing? What if we never got the chance to even want to break out and become selves in the sense of responsible for ourselves, if we never even learned that? If we never get the chance to choose because we don't know how to?
That doesn't mean that everyone is a saint. Actions matter. I will first help those that I can, and last those who I deem enforcers of what I define as evil. That is, indeed, a whole different and equally fascinating subject.