Jack Shepherd vs. The State of Delusion

For those of you out there who follow my blog and have read some of the uber long posts I have about Lost episodes have most likely gathered that I don't believe Jack to be the most spectacular chap to have ever roamed the Island. There are many things that have led me to this conclusion, don't get me wrong there was a time when I totally supported the Jack/Kate relationship it is only recently (anytime between this summer and a week and two days ago) that I have become a much larger fan of the Sawyer/Kate relationship (plus I have a bragging rights bet riding on them soo...) and now I shall proceed to explai why that is via some sort of a pro/con list (do NOT mock the pro/con list):

Reasons Jack is a good leader (pros):

In the beginning (meaning between the time the plane crashed and the day Michael walked off) I perceived Jack to be a rather decent fellow for these reasons:

1. He was very nice to Kate when he learned about her fugitive status - he didn't see it as his business and therefore left it up to her to tell him about it.
2. He genuinely cared for everyone on the island and therefore (even though he really didn't want to) took on the role of Leader.
3. He didn't judge people for their past lives (Charlie-drug addict, Sawyer-con man, Sayid-'interrogator,' Kate-murderess, etc.)
4. He didn't let Sawyer die from the knife wound - bleed to death or die of sepsis (but seriously e shouldn't have pulled the knife out until he had the medical suppise that he needed.
5. He made sure everyone else was safe and happy before thinking about his own health.
6. He put the Marshal, who was dying of sepsis, out of his misery when Sawyer (who needed glasses) shot him in the lung instead of the heart.
7. He selflessly went after Claire when she was taken by Ethan and ended up saving Charlie's life even though it appeared that he was more than only mostly dead.
8. He put the nitroglycerin-covered dynamite in his bag instead of Kate's (which can also be seen as an overprotective gesture and is therefore also a con).
9. He didn't cast out the tail section survivors after they (meaning Ana-Lucia) accidentally killed Shannon.
10. He attempted to save Kate from the Others when they were first captured.
11. He saved Sawyer's life by helping Kate and Sawyer escape the cages on the Alcatraz island.
12. He promised Kate he would come back for her when he thought he was going to get to escape the island.
13. He helped orchestrate the ambush on the Others when they were coming for the pregnant women.
14. He got everyone safely to the radio tower.
15. He encouraged Kate to go the New Otherton w/Sayid and Miles.
16. He helped get as many people as he could off the island.

Those are all the pros I could think of, but please enlighten me if you think of any more.

Reasons why Jack is wrong for Kate (cons):

1. When Kate offered to tell him what she did he turned her down saying that he didn't want to know then about two days later asked her what she did and was not very accepting when she didn't tell him.
2. He generally thought that whenever he came up wit and idea (i.e. moving to the caves) that it was the absolute most right thing for everyone to do (yes I realize that is bad grammar and being as I am very tired and it is still before 10 A.M. I really don't care) and therefore pushed it on everyone and was slightly miffed at those who didn't agree with him.
3. He helped torture Sawyer for information when he could have gone about it differently.
4. He made Kate lie to him about the toy airplane when he didn't believe her about who it belonged to (it really belonged to the man she loved not the man she killed) and in the process of doing so made her tell him what she had done even though she didn't want to after he turned down her offer to tell him.
5. He went after Michael when Michael went to try to save Walt even though Locke and Michael both told him not to (he went after him to brig him back, eliminating Michael's free will).
6. He wouldn't let Kate come with him, Sawyer, and Locke to bring Michael back (eliminating her free will and beginning his overprotective streak).
7. He was quite angry with Kate for tracking him, Sawyer, and Locke when he told her not to (showing how little he understands her).
8. He seemed to blame Kate (he gave her the cold shoulder for a while) for losing the guns to the Others since they captured her while she was tracking the threesome stated twice above and made the same threesome trade their guns for her life (in actual reality it was his fault for a)not letting her come along and b)not realizing that she would follow them anyway).
9. He was mean to Sawyer because Sawyer (in his altered state during his infection from the bullet wound in his shoulder) said that he loved Kate.
10. He kept many important people (Sawyer, Locke, Kate, etc.) in the dark about his intentions to 'build and army' to attack the Others with (being as it would affect everyon living on the island he probably should have made that public information).
11. He was angry with Kate for asking him to do the surgery on Ben to save Sawyer's life and set the three of them free (seriously...overly jealous, how could he not see this coming she and Sawyer have been together at the cages the entire time).
12. He got rather buddybuddy with Juliet even though he was supposedly still in love with Kate (yeah obviously not THAT in love).
13. He was angry with Kate for coming back for him when he told her not to and didn't do anything to help her escape the Others, but instead thought only of his and Juliet's escape from the Island (when has she ever done anything he asked her to that involved not going somewhere?).
14. Upon arriving back at the beach and learning of Juliet's alternate agenda he proceeded to not tell anyone about it even though it affected all of the survivors.
15. He was angry at Kate for not telling him about Naomi right away (even though she told him after being sworn to secrecy by Sayid).
16. He didn't listen to Kate when she suggested that Naomi had left a dummy trail and then was miffed when he followed the dummy trail while Kate stole the radio, followed the real trail and found Naomi.
17. After they got off the Island and Jack and Kate got engaged Jack became rather paranoid about Kate's mysterious phone calls so he did the smart thing, got drunk and had a shouting match with her in which he revealed to Aaron (who was unbeknownst to the two adults in the room with them) that Kate was not his mother.
18. And going along with number 17 he got into a jealous shouting match with Kate about her 'doing something for Sawyer' (that's right he got jealous of a guy stuck in a different time on a constantly moving island, the same guy who jumped out of a moving helicopter so that he, Kate and the rest of the people in said helicopter could safely escape from the island, very mature).

And the cons have it, Jack has little to no understanding of Kate and therefore things between them ought not to work out in the end.