How is Dexter a sociopath if?

[Peace]

Can we analyze Ross on Friends next
I always thought he was a little sociopathic, and I never really liked him

Woof, Woof - Dawg

another good example would be the characters on Seinfeld.

 

[tkermit]

another good example would be the characters on Seinfeld.

JERRY: I don't even want to talk about it anymore. What were you thinking? What was going on in your mind? Artistic integrity? Where, where did you come up with that? You're not artistic and you have no integrity. You know you really need some help. A regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you. You need to go to like Vienna or something. You know what I mean? You need to get involved at the University level. Like where Freud studied and have all those people looking at you and checking up on you. That's the kind of help you need. Not the once a week for eighty bucks. No. You need a team. A team of psychiatrists working round the clock thinking about you, having conferences, observing you, like the way they did with the Elephant Man. That's what I'm talking about because that's the only way you're going to get better.

 

[waloshin]

Anyone else get the feeling we're going to be hearing about waloshin on the news?

No, I just read on Wikipedia that Dexter is a Sociopath so I was just questioning how, and decided to see if anyone could add to the discussion.

 

[JMax1]

I think he is an example of a sociopath with "good" early intervention by his father. I think if his father did not intervene and give him the appropriate social skills training he would not have a "conscious" and would have ended up being the textbook sociopath and killer of anyone. I don't think it's too far off the mark of good "rehabilitation" or pushing his sociopathologies toward something useful - as in ridding the world of the bad guys, being trained to recognize (maybe not fully understand, but recognize) positive traits and responsibilities of what "normal" is. I think him as a character is fairly accurate. Just the non-accurate part is how successful he has been about killing without getting caught (but I haven't gotten through the 4th season yet, so I could be wrong by now. I DONT WANT TO KNOW YET )

 

[waloshin]

^^^ You got it all wrong. He doesn't look like Dexter, but he DOES look like a character from the first season.

*Spoilers for Season 1*



Remember that guy that pretended to be the ice truck killer for publicity (like he hacked into the police station's network and was able to get all the info on him not released to the pubic). I can't find that guys name, but he looks exactly like him

Umm, no.

I think these two make a better match.