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Originally Posted by Lalaith
Well, yes there is. He behaved well and honourably to the People of Haleth, offering Haleth recompense for her dead brother and father. He saw "what valour there was in the people of the Edain." This is at a time when many of the elves (Thingol and the green-elves of Ossirand in particular) were inclined to despise them.
I do not think that Feanor would have had much time for Men, one of his greatest flaws was arrogance. So perhaps even Caranthir, so much his father's son, had something of his mother in him.
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Not just the people of Haleth. Of all the Sons of Fëanor, Caranthir was probably the most interracially concerned- except possibly for Maedhros. In addition to the People of Haleth, who ended up departing for Brethil, Caranthir was also closest of the Fëanorians to the Dwarves. He had a very close trading relationship with the Nogrodians, which stood the Eldar well against Glaurung.
And he was also the Fëanorian prince to whom the people of Uldor swore their allegiance. They proved faithless, it is true, but the very fact that Caranthir sought their allegiance is a mark in his favour, not against.
So, though Caranthir is much-maligned by fans as the "nasty" son of Fëanor, one could easily make a case that he was among the best of those same sons. His deliberate seeking out of allies and vassals from among the non-Eldar is in direct contrast to Celegorm and Curufin's scornful treatment of Beren.