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The 6 criteria for antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) that Altschuler and his colleagues suggest¹ for Samson requires a more careful reading of the biblical text, Judges 13 through 16. The following will provide such.

1. It is not generally accepted that social norms will be conformed to in wartime. Samson is at war, as is almost everyone in the book of Judges. The burning of enemy fields and food stocks is a skillful act of the guerrilla fighter that is described as a military tactic in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus and Livy.
   
2. Samson is not deceitful to his parents. He does not tell them about the lion, which he has killed, because he neither wished to trouble them with concern for his safety nor to boast about what he had been able to do. Eating honey from the carcass of an "unclean" animal only makes the family ceremonially . . . [Full Text of this Article]