I've no doubt Queen that Sawyer.. James, borrowed from the Dharma library with no intention of making a return.
I'm having a vision here... help me out a bit. A later season, and there is some sort of debate, perhaps between James Ford and Ben, pitting social philosophies against one another, for control of the island, and Sawyer wins, because of the knowledge he has sponged from his time on the island. The winner and his tribe are safe, and control the island, the loser and his tribe get fed to Smokey. ... The losers do not repent

How about that?