Nazism is a pretty black-and-white issue.

Driving Kathy Sierra off the Internet is a pretty black-and-white issue.

Most critically, lying about it when asked means you know you fucked up, but refuse to admit to it or apologize. That's also pretty black-and-white.

Wales is a guy I don't usually agree with but still think he did something sui generis to benefit society. Hocevar is just above-average at writing video codecs. There's hundreds of people who can do what he does, without having such a black heart.