User blog comment:FlinkyTheStoat/Essay:The Grey Irish Stoat? Flinky - A Character Study/@comment-1884658-20100610225745

You show a good argument here, pointing out all his good sides and you make it stronger by saying the bit about the counter argument. In Outcast, I think it was, someone commented that most vermin are evil because it's in their nature. If that's so, maybe the evil things Flinky did were just impulse that he couldn't really help.