All the day I`ve been singing "Heal the world, make it better place, for you and for me and the entire human race..." You needn`t make a hero out of Michael, but he was a distinguished talent, at the same time a very tragic figure, caught in his own dreams and fantasies.
I am sure that there were people around him who took advantage of his wealth, of his gentle personality and ruined him. Look at some videos, the guys around him are all so fat and strong, he had a personal doctor, and what is the result? Broke, bankrupt, sick, dying. They were all like moscitoes sucking his blood.
Michael invented a new style in pop music, he invented moonwalk, he was distinct from everybody else, he was a permanent child. He needed help and there was nobody to help him, he was absolutely lonely, beaten in his own territory.
Certainly he will be an icon, he already is. Nobody is denying the fact that he was a freak and so on and so on, but why should we constantly speak about his negative sides and qualities, as if there are no positive ones. (like in the other thread about Michael, where again John is mentioned, and again and again to underline and drill in the fact that he was bad as if the others were saints)