Talk:Harry Morgan/@comment-26179634-20130415155401/@comment-216.165.95.76-20140428232422

That's the great tragedy of the show. Dexter clearly is not the monster that he believes himself to be. He truly cares about his sister, Rita, Harrison, etc. in a way that a psycopathic monster would not. He's badly damaged, but a lot more human than Harry realized. And it seems like Harry has him brainwashed into believing that he's something he's not. You clearly get the impression that, in a different environment, Dexter might have been "curable."

Of course, this is fiction. Dexter's character is in some gray area where he displays all of the signs of psychopathy but also a lot of signs that are completely inconsisent with the disease. It's hard to tell which the writers were going for, and even if they knew themselves.