I love how you would seemingly have gone up to the bloke and shook his hand and said 'you are a hero, mate. Thank you.'
And then when he said 'I am a convicted murderer' you would have them said 'oh, I take it all back then.'
Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?
One, single, solitary act - eternally
grateful for that one single, solitary act.
Bad act - Hate that bad or evil act.
I have a built in niceness about me that means I cannot hate people. That is irrelevant here. I am just not that type of person to hate people.
You do know the opposite of hate is love, not 'eternally grateful' for one act don't you?
You are trying to find some conflict and contrariness when there is none to be found.