Lindsey wasn't killed for vengeance or because he was a monster - Angel got rid of him for crimes he *might* commit.
Sidebar: the don't-kill-humans rule is really restricted to BtVS; Angel kills humans now and then if it's necessary. Does that make it right? Probably not. (Viz his speech to Illyria in "Shells" being interrupted by Wesley's execution of Knox.) What's the phrase, "serve no master but your own ambition"?
But yeah, the sidebar. The monsters in BtVS are (or at least started as) metaphors. Hence they can be killed. Humans cannot, since they are "real". Which just supports my point: if Warren is there as a mirror image for Buffy-the-monster rather than Buffy-the-human, then he's a metaphor and he can be killed.
I'll just say metaphor a few more times, so I get to sound like a broken record. :-)
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Date: 2007-06-27 11:24 am (UTC)Sidebar: the don't-kill-humans rule is really restricted to BtVS; Angel kills humans now and then if it's necessary. Does that make it right? Probably not. (Viz his speech to Illyria in "Shells" being interrupted by Wesley's execution of Knox.) What's the phrase, "serve no master but your own ambition"?
But yeah, the sidebar. The monsters in BtVS are (or at least started as) metaphors. Hence they can be killed. Humans cannot, since they are "real". Which just supports my point: if Warren is there as a mirror image for Buffy-the-monster rather than Buffy-the-human, then he's a metaphor and he can be killed.
I'll just say metaphor a few more times, so I get to sound like a broken record. :-)