Yeah, yeah they mourn after death but while you're alive hate and look at you as a monster, not buying it. Shitty people.
Even if it's misunderstood personality issue, he sure acts like he is genuinely it, there's a lot of people with "scary" exterior but if you're rotten, you're rotten on the inside.
Sure he saved a kid, acted on the impulse, doesn't make him a good person. Maybe it will change.