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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 4040200" data-attributes="member: 10397">I've not seen the show, but I've heard of it. Theres still some things under discussion here I'd like to comment on though.  You hear a lot of talk, especially regarding movie/television characters, about "pyschopaths", "sociopaths" and people supposedly having no moral compass, no emotions, no attachments to people, or being essentially animals.  I dont buy it, personally.All sentient beings have emotions. As far as I'm concerned, sentience/conciousness and emotion are largely inseperable (this is also why I dlsilike the sci fi notion of aliens or sentient machines without "human emotion.") Human beings are concious, aware of themselves and their enviroment, and possessed of free will.   I'm also not big on the D&D concept of "neutrality" as regards Good and Evil, with sentients. D&D alignment only allows for Good and Evil as extremes, and labels most people "Neutral." I believe most people are Good...their intentions are good, they bear no one ill will without reason and are generally willing to do at least a little to help others, but they arent crusaders.  People choose their actions. The type of character being discussed here, to me, is going to be one of two things: a person with a compulsion to kill, but who is basically a decent person and so only kills those who probably need killing, or someone with a compulsion to kill who does not care who they kill, but kills those that need killing to make it easier for them. Obviously the exception to all this is people who are so totally insane they truly dont know or understand what they are doing and cant distinguish reality...but these are, I believe extrremely rare. I consider most or all serial killers to be evil people who realize what they are doing is wrong, and choose to do it anyway because they wish too.</blockquote>

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