User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 25-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag gameplay trailer/@comment-4519956-20130412151703/@comment-4999424-20130413152151

Wolf: You missed the point. Also you can choose not to use the T,M or C to distract the guards, but thats not my point.

Eagle: Second irony: The Assassin's seak to open the minds of men, but require obedience to rules.

Connor lived the concept of the Creed. He choose to do that instead of following the irony. You are right that he does not mention it as motivation, but his actions and speaches with each target says otherwise. As a note he is also an idealis. As he said in AC3L: "I follow my own hands" when asked by Aveline about the ways of he Creed.