"Yes, of course Dexter has the urge to kill outside the Code of Harry. Every day. So many people. The Dark Passenger has a blood lust that does not discriminate between innocent and guilty, deserving and undeserving. Especially when the moon is full. Dexter is in a sense two people--the happy-go-lucky, smart, funny blood technician with a 9-to-5 job, a fiancée, and am apparently normal life--and--the Dark Passenger, a monster who thrives on death and the ritualistic torture and killing of humans. The Code of Harry keeps the Dark Passenger in check. But the urge is always there, and the Dark Passenger never wholly absent. If Dex would stop feeding the Dark Passenger with victims of his own brand of vigilante justice, his inner monster would probably escape his control. This is why Dex does not think he is human--he enjoys killing people. It's not only his hobby, its his avocation. So yes, death walks as his daily companion, and not much is required to move someone from the "innocent, do not touch" column to the "they deserve it" column. In a sense, Dex is happy that Miguel deserves a visit from the Dark Passenger. "

"Miguel is an iceman. A sick you know what killer. Dexter is like batman. He NEEDS to be out there killing those whom need killing. He is plasticwrapman, a blue collar, short sleeved, avenger/protector. Right?"

"well put.
He wouldn't kill line jumpers, but will stray from word of the code if it meant saving those close to him if their lives were in danger. (so far he has dirctly saved Deb from a know killer, and saved the kids from a convicted and potentially dangerous pedophile. maybe more that I don't remember right now.)"

"Don't forget, he also "saved" Rita and the kids from Paul."

"Of course Miguels Brother the Accident. Even though he may have been a good deed, by accident. He was uncovering info about Miguels Brother at one point, This is anothe one of Season 3's problems. he was finding out about Oscar and it was looking like Oscar may have been a bad guy. Then all of a sudden it stopped. no more info about Oscar. We knew Oscar was buying drugs from Freebo, But was he doing it for himself or for a reason other that to get high?? It was dropped just like the Suki story...."

"This is where the Definition comes in is he a Sociopath or a Psycopath?
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Sociopath-Someone whose social behavior is extremely abnormal. Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others.
Psychopath-A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse.
A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior.

I see both, and if he is progressing / or growing emotioinally then he is still in this definition but becoming more one or the other.

Mind you this is a figmant of someones emagination, and as so they can write it how they want it to end. As so, in real life it will not be this way. It tends to much more cut and dry. Dexter would truely fall more into one category or another. In real life I am not so sure this would ever happen."

"No That is not at alll what I said."

"This is where the Definition comes in is he a Sociopath or a Psycopath?
(Copy and Pasted from and Online Dictionary)
Sociopath-Someone whose social behavior is extremely abnormal. Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their behavior on others.
Psychopath-A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse.
A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior.

I see both, and if he is progressing / or growing emotioinally then he is still in this definition but becoming more one or the other.

Mind you this is a figmant of someones emagination, and as so they can write it how they want it to end. As so, in real life it will not be this way. It tends to much more cut and dry. Dexter would truely fall more into one category or another. In real life I am not so sure this would ever happen."

"We beat this to death. I do not understand your point.
I still say in real life the character would fall into one category or another ie: Sociopath or Psychopath. So the writers can take the character and morph them into anything they want They have the ability or poetic license to make them seem some what Psychopathic as well as having Sociopathic tendencies as well.
If you argue this point I will not respond. cuz we all know the writer can give the character any personality trait they want to.

Again this is beaten to death. You are arguing just to argue."