Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-26601629-20150714071009/@comment-6383956-20150722011604

NervousShipper wrote: What I don't understand is that Stiles is pragmatic. He has always been the one to advocate the killing of their enemies, you know, the mass murderers. Stiles out of everyone should be fine with what happened to Donovan, especially when Donovan was clearly in as much of a right mind as he'd always had, and that Stiles didn't even purposefully stab him, not to mention that if Donovan was less durable, that rench to the face would have killed him, and Stiles is smart enough to know that before he hit him with it, especially since that he would by now be used to the adrenaline that goes with the heroics he throws himself in. And so he should just shrug of killing someone? You know what that would make Stiles, right?

A psychopath. (Or, at best, a sociopath.)

This is like basic human psychology -- killing another person takes a serious toll on a person, no matter how pragmatic a solution it may have been at the time. This is why PTSD is such a widespread problem among veterans, because killing someone is traumatic even when they are actively trying to kill you.

So, in  order not to be traumatized at least a little bit, to stay as clear-headed as you think Stiles should have been, he would have needed to have serious antisocial personality disorder (which is the disorder that sociopaths and psychopaths have.)