Category talk:Dexter's innocent victims

Sad and predictable... but you are missing the first and most egregious break in Dexter's code. He killed a guy for taking photographs of people on a beach. That's it. His victim never killed anyone. He wasn't going to kill again. It was not established that he was a threat to anyone. Dexter did not meticulously vet him like he was supposed to to see if he was really guilty or not. We don't even know what his crime was.. just that he was in the sex offender registry. It's really really easy to get on there. And many many innocent people are. Dexter even tells himself, repeatedly, that he is breaking his code during this episode, and concludes that he has a new code where he can just kill whomever he feels like it (this is abandoned immediately in subsequent episodes). It was awful and horrible but... most horrible of all? The audience was probably cheering him on when he did it.

Why? ... people, Americans at least, are so obscenely bloodthirsty when it comes to even suspected child molestors, that nobody ever considers this to be a break in the code.