Talk:Finn Collins/@comment-24.2.175.196-20150318002420/@comment-76.17.103.248-20150626234209

You can't really compare PTSD to being a sociopath. They are two very different psychologies. All mental illnesses are not the same. Depression is a mental illness, but it's totally differenet from something like schizophrenia. You just can't make these kinds of comparisons.

I'd define a villain as someone who deliberately, maliciously, and repeatedly does harm to others for selfish reasons or sometimes just because they can. They never regret their misdeeds and they don't care about the ones they harm. They either don't think that they are wrong or they don't care if they are.

PTSD is a disorder brought on by repeatedly being subjected to trauma and not being able to process it. It can be treated, and it doesn't mean that you are crazy, evil or necessarily dangerous. The whole mechanism is explained in the character analysis "Dissecting Finn" on Tumblr under falvorsprincess.

And it's not fair to define Finn by that one terrible act. That's not who he was. Sometimes, good people do bad things because they are human and all humans are flawed. It's what they do afterwards, how they try to redeem themselves, make amends, and how they live their lives as a whole that defines them. Good Lord, we'd all go to hell if one misdeed totally defined us.