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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joker" data-source="post: 6221822" data-attributes="member: 826">There's a huge difference between making hard choices when your life or the lives of those around you are in peril and what the Governor did.  Someone is not necessarily a sociopath if he does terrible* things to survive.  Someone is a sociopath if he does those things because he feels like it or feels like he is entitled to do them.Rick is a crushed person because of his loss and because of all the things he has had to do to survive with his family.  This does not make him psychotic.  He is emotionally and mentally unstable but through the help of those around him and his desire to keep the rest of his family safe he's able to muster the strength to carry on and to rationalize the decisions he has had to make.The Governor takes the head of a pilot and ambushes a bunch of soldiers to take their gear.  He kills off what remained of his village because they questioned his orders.  He's hellbent on killing everyone that stands in his way, seemingly without remorse.  This is psychotic anti-social behavior.I agree with you that sociopaths will have a better chance of survival than those who try to uphold pre-Apocalypse social contracts.  This explanation doesn't however excuse his behavior and it most certainly doesn't mean it should be tolerated.The writers are most certainly trying to get us to empathize with him.  We've seen nothing in this episode of his brutal ways.  That's why I think they're setting us up for a shocker.  Make him look like a new man now, get us to feel for him and then hit us in the gut as he sacrifices the little girl.</blockquote>

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