User blog comment:DanyD/Top 5 Assassin's Creed Psychopaths/@comment-27202257-20140118203118

I honestly wouldn't have Altair here. The evidence doesn't suggest he's uniquely murderous among the brotherhood when you actually consider it its context--he killed an innocent man in Solomon's Temple because, in his estimation, the man was a liability and Altair was eliminating him in the line of duty. He later comes to recognize his flawed judgment and regrets the decision. With Al Mualim, Altair only eliminated him when it became clear that he was a threat to all of Masyaf. Finally, with Abbas, Altair actually went out of his way to not kill him as long as he could, and it was only after Abbas had robbed him of a son, wife, and the brotherhood that he took him down. That, I think, is actually strong evidence against Altair being a sociopath, because the only reason he didn't do it much earlier was because he valued Abbas' "friendship" and their childhood together.

I wonder where your sources are on some of this information. Where did you get your definition of psychopathy and sociopathy? What is your source that psychopathy is based on "nature" and sociopathy is based on "nuture"? What are these numbers based on? I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily, I'm just curious where this comes from.

Also, I would be really careful about saying that someone is a psychopath or sociopath for defending themselves against others. Haytham killed someone at an early age because they had just murdered his father and were attempting to do the same to his mother. You could make the argument that that was the seed of further anti-social behavior, but I wouldn't say it in and of itself is an act of a psycho/sociopathy.