User blog comment:CiscoTheSoto/Pure Good Proposal: Van Hohenheim (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)/@comment-43690701-20191021223703

Yes.

He left his family for noble purposes(i.e saving the entire world), and even then he still cared about them, and still tried to be a good father afterwards.

He was also the only one that is empathetic enough to sympathize with FATHER( Who is easily the most evil character in FMAB) and tries to help 500,000 anguished souls, even though he did not need to do that.

I think we should keep him in that category, since he slips away all of his main corrupting factors along the series.