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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2830191" data-attributes="member: 7883">Exactly.  That's what I'm getting at.  He's "tainted" by what he's done.  He's not a hero in the classic sense of the word.  I'd actually venture to say that Jack displays sociopathic tendencies.  He's got a disturbing ability to justify away the results of his actions on others, and appears, in the heat of the moment, to not harbour guilt over what he's done.  Most people aren't like that.  I'd also be thinking that those factors in how he acts may be "bad", from a "normal social adjustment" perspective, but serve his government very well when channeled towards a certain purpose (ie. hunting down and apprehending terrorists).It's pretty evident, even from the first season that everything wasn't perfect in the Bauer household at the beginning.  It seems that his job and his personalilty were causing difficulties with respect to being in "normal" life before all these crises started occurring.  At least that's what I remember.  It seems like every season he goes further and further across the line, displaying more and more vicious behaviour....even the way he talks.  I'm not sure if this is because the writers are needing to find more effective ways of shocking us, or whether this is an evolution of the character.I wonder sometimes, now that the show has been extended, whether Jack will gradually devolve from who he was in the first season, to a rather nasty individual by the end, and the series ends when he finally has to be "retired", or something like that.In any case, in the first season, I think he might have been classified as NG or CG even....but by now, he's more like true neutral.  If he doesn't find ways to reign it in, he's in danger of drifting to evil.  The most horrible actions of history were in many cases committed by people who were telling themselves they had a specific reason, and were doing good, as they defined it.  That's another discussion, though..Banshee</blockquote>

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