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* Finally, Rachel is also too young to be diagnosed with a personality disorder more severe than conduct disorder with violent features, but the books sum it better than the DSM ever could - she's a violence junkie.
* I thought it was pretty clear that David was supposed to be Not Right somehow. Sure, a lot of horrible stuff happened to him, but that doesn't excuse the sadistic tendencies, the weird rationalizations for what he thought was murder, the seeming lack of morals or guilt, the ego, or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|owning a cobra and naming his cat "Megadeth"]]. While he might not be textbook ASPD, he probably would've ended up as a juvenile delinquent, had things gone differently (or possibly already was).
** There's a ''huge'' gap between a juvenile delinquent and a sociopath, and even comparing the two is baffling. It's been [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14738243/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/study-teenage-brain-lacks-empathy/ scientifically proven] that teenagers tend towards a distinct lack of empathy - Jake and the team are the ''exception'', not the rule. In many ways, the David arc was about showing what would happen if an ordinary kid were recruited to the war, and clearly the results aren't pretty.
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