Forum:Discussion: Graystripe, Born Codebreaker?

Personally, I love to discuss things, and becuase I'm currently going through Into the Wild in a chapter-by-chapter, highly detailed way, I've decided to open a discussion thread on it.

Currently, I'm reading (and taking notes on) Chapter 1, and am noticing something about Graystipe... Even during ItW, he already posses a personality that defied the Warriors Code! My Proof?

Paperback Pg 13: ''"Hi there, kittypet!" meowed the gray tom cheerily. "you put up quite a fight for a tame kitty!"''
 * Greeting what he should be tearing to shreds and driving from his territory in accordance with the code?

Paperpack Pg 16: ''"I smell cats from my Clan," he hissed. "You should go. They won't be pleased to find you hunting in our territory!"''
 * Protecting a stranger that is stealing prey?

This is just including the part of the chapter I've gotten through... But Graystipe, who grew up in a society where the code is an intrigule part of life (to quote Firestar in Firestar's Quest it's "drank in with their mother's milk) he would, even as a new apprentice, be familiar with it's most basic tenants. Simply put, he knows better, so he's got no excuses there...

According to the author's first Chat, "Nature vs Nurture" is a theme of the books... But between things like this, I'm starting to wonder if that's really the case. It seems that Graystripe was born to defile the code, while Firestar was born to flout it (yet somehow uphold it).