Magic and hypothermic poultry, ethics

["cab_moore" <cab_moore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(putting this in a seperate post as it's not actually spoilery, just 
spoiler inspired)
I refrained from saying this on the Power/responcibility debate 
earlier, but the implication in the Buffyverse is that magical power 
permiates the whole world and can be tapped almost instinctively, 
doubly so on the hellmouth. So willow didn't necessarily decide to 
jump off the wagon when Tara died, she might just have no longer had 
the strength to supress her natural tendencies, and once charged up 
it would only have inflamed her emotions (and what sort of magic do 
you find on the hellmouth, I'll guess It doesn't like happy endings) -
killing warren = wrong, but understandable (anyway, I tend to agree 
that the conventional justice system couldn't hold him).

As an aside, now I'm started, I tend to view the killing of vamipres 
in the same context as war - Buffy is fighting a nightly war to 
minimise human casualities, killing vamipres (or any other sentient 
beings) is not right but it is the only practical solution. Vampires 
don't have to be souless or deserve to die - they are a threat that 
must be contained. Killing of innocent demons is regretable but 
accidents happen.

Sometimes expediency is all we have.

(I've already argued that Vamipres ARE the same person, 
but 'reprogrammed'; Spike can want to be good but without a "soul" he 
lacked the impulse control needed)


So much for not commenting,

CA
(one-one thousand, two-one thousand... hello Dan)