Originally Posted by kanisatha
[quote=Cahir]
Well, for one thing, I did not say being a sinner and a victim are mutually exclusive. One could potentially be both (and also obviously neither). In your example, the second person is both. I would feel strong sympathy for their victim past, but complete revulsion for their subsequent life of sin in the present, which in my view was a choice they made.

Then, is the person who is a sinner and a victim at the same time worth redeeming or not?

I agree, that usually the person's backstory is not a black and white and there's always a trigger that made them do evil things, but that's also applying to BG3 characters, like Shadowheart. Admittedly, I haven't played EA, because I didn't want to spoil myself the story before playing the full game, but my friend told me, we don't get to learn Shadowheart's full backstory in Act 1 (which is EA's content), so we cannot see the full picture. We don't know what led her to worships Shar and if this devotion is strong or not.
We can of course threat a character like a set of statistics on the character sheet, with their alignment, class, worshipped deity and so on, and said that this character is evil and not worth taking to our group, but IMO that's oversimplification.