Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25222572-20150805153239/@comment-13965604-20150806134836

JEK wrote: ^^I'll agree with that. Peter exhibits NUMEROUS socio/psychopathic traits (though yes, he does tend more towards the accepted definition of a psychopath, rather than a sociopath; I've gotten into bad habits when it comes to these sorts of disorders. People use them interchangeably so often, even though they shouldn't, and I don't think Peter has ever been referred to as a psychopath on the show. It's always sociopath.....though I'm not sure why. I guess the BH Scooby Gang don't study psychology?) but he always has a rational (and oddly sympathetic, when you think about it for more than 2 seconds, "Family first!" type) reason behind just about everything he does.

He's.......an odd character. Strange set of values.

Though I'd also say that the person in question would have to be incredibly important to him for him to feel even the slightest twinge of guilt over killing them. I highly doubt that he'd feel guilt over some random person, and certainly not over an enemy.

That's one of the minor things that bothers me about the show, them referring to him as a sociopath when he leans more toward psychopath, Jeff should know the difference if he did any research at all when he worked on Criminal Minds. And a boy who randomly decided to search out the history of male circumsicion and had a mom with a mental illness could've easily dove into the mental illness research of all types. It would be believable enough for him to know the difference.

Anyway. I agree, it would have to be someone he cared very much about. There's a lot of chatter that thinks the story that Peter told us about Derek was really about himself. Peter once said that Scott reminded him of Derek at his age, which isn't what we saw in the flashback. Scott isn't cocky like that. Peter though? And we know Basketball is more his game. We know Peter manipulates situations to get what he wants. I could see this being Peter's story, and him actually feeling guilt over it if it was.