And yeah, I pretty much agree re: Faith's reasons for going to jail and her reasons for leaving. Her epiphany isn't that she must be punished, but that she has no control over herself and can't trust herself ("I got dangerous for a while"). She goes to jail partly because she feels she deserves it, but also to "reboot" as it were - break a habit. (She even refers to it as "murder rehab" later on.)
Was I shocked? Hell yes. Did I cheer just a little? Not out loud but, I didn't exactly feel sorry for him.
Yeah. It's a pretty tricky issue to justify morally, especially since I'm very much anti-death penalty IRL, but on the other hand... Once he's dead, what's the moral argument for feeling sorry about it? In my headcanon, Willow would feel sorry for having killed Warren, but not for him being dead (again, season 7: "I killed him for a reason!") Which again raises the question if we have morals to feel sorry for others, or for ourselves... How do you feel truly guilty about something when you can't help but think the outcome was, if not good, then at least an improvement? Especially when it's an action that's more or less forced upon you, as it is in a lot of cases ranging from domestic abuse to political oppression... Like i said above, Faith, at least, has the "luxury" of knowing that what she did was undeniably wrong, while Willow feels guilty for not feeling guilty enough. I can't really blame her.
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And yeah, I pretty much agree re: Faith's reasons for going to jail and her reasons for leaving. Her epiphany isn't that she must be punished, but that she has no control over herself and can't trust herself ("I got dangerous for a while"). She goes to jail partly because she feels she deserves it, but also to "reboot" as it were - break a habit. (She even refers to it as "murder rehab" later on.)
Was I shocked? Hell yes. Did I cheer just a little? Not out loud but, I didn't exactly feel sorry for him.
Yeah. It's a pretty tricky issue to justify morally, especially since I'm very much anti-death penalty IRL, but on the other hand... Once he's dead, what's the moral argument for feeling sorry about it? In my headcanon, Willow would feel sorry for having killed Warren, but not for him being dead (again, season 7: "I killed him for a reason!") Which again raises the question if we have morals to feel sorry for others, or for ourselves... How do you feel truly guilty about something when you can't help but think the outcome was, if not good, then at least an improvement? Especially when it's an action that's more or less forced upon you, as it is in a lot of cases ranging from domestic abuse to political oppression... Like i said above, Faith, at least, has the "luxury" of knowing that what she did was undeniably wrong, while Willow feels guilty for not feeling guilty enough. I can't really blame her.