I wouldn't say he was an arsehole. I never met the man, and just because someone advances a cause they themselves have great interest in shouldn't make that person reprehensible. If that were the case, why aren't we heaping denigrations upon all those Run For the Cure folks? I mean, they're breast cancer survivors and friends/relatives of people with breast cancer, so it's not like they didn't have personal interests in the cause in the first place.

Still, I don't think Supe was necessarily heroic. He was just a guy doing what lots of other guys would do in his situation.