acknowledging my inner cold bitch
Nov. 16th, 2002 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockYou know, I've been thinking, and while I'm generally a very emotional person, and an idealist, and on the whole kind-- when it comes to personal security, I'm a cold-hearted, practical bitch.
I mean, I can't stand the thought of living in under an opressed government, and I feel so strongly for those worse off than myself, or someone who is being oppressed by someone else, but I've got zero pity for someone who threatens me.
It's not even bloodthirstyness. Like, the argument of whether crazy people should be executed for murders they commit, or whether they should just be put in an asylum, cause they're not *really* responsible? I couldn't give a fuck. It's such an important issue with some people (like my aunt Charlene), and yet I've done some hard examination and there's NOT ONE PIECE of me who cares whether they're dead or not. I only care that they can't hurt anyone else-- be that execution or locked away for life. I've elected to not even argue about it anymore, because I don't care. and I keep thinking, I *should* care-- wouldnt' taht be the good, compassionate thing to do? But I don't-- i don't have pity for killers, even if they didn't know what they were doing at the time--I'm only concerned with them not being a threat to anyone else, whatever the means.
I think about Buffy, and all her trauma over who to kill, who not to.
And I look at it and say-- "It's easy honey. Vampires have to die-- not because they're evil, but because they kill humans. Any demon that is a threat to humanity, you kill. Any demon that isn't, you leave alone."
I say, screw Right vs Wrong, Good vs Evil. In a situation like Buffy's, the Slayer's responsibility isn't to right-- its to humanity. She's SO worried about doing "the right thing", whether it's ok to let a demon live like Spike or Clem, or to make an alliance with a demon to stop another demon.
Buffy should use a black and white view, but just not the one she's using now. Her black and white view should be "threat vs. no threat"--- NOT good/evil.
If Buffy followed this policy, then it wouldn't matter how deeply she got involved with Spike, because as long as he's not killing humans, he wouldn't be something to "deal" with at all--- he should become purely a non-issue. So she can have sex with him, love him, whatever--- his nature is unimportant, what's important is what he DOES. And if he's not killing, WHO CARES?!
If I were a Sunnydale resident, would I care that Buffy was sleeping with a nuetered vampire? NO. If he was guaranteed not to kill me or mine (like with a chip), what else he does or who else does him, means nothing.
Really, Buffy should just stop worrying so much over good and bad, and think of it in terms of ending threats, not fighting evil. If she didn't worry so much, she'd be more relaxed and happier too.
I mean, I can't stand the thought of living in under an opressed government, and I feel so strongly for those worse off than myself, or someone who is being oppressed by someone else, but I've got zero pity for someone who threatens me.
It's not even bloodthirstyness. Like, the argument of whether crazy people should be executed for murders they commit, or whether they should just be put in an asylum, cause they're not *really* responsible? I couldn't give a fuck. It's such an important issue with some people (like my aunt Charlene), and yet I've done some hard examination and there's NOT ONE PIECE of me who cares whether they're dead or not. I only care that they can't hurt anyone else-- be that execution or locked away for life. I've elected to not even argue about it anymore, because I don't care. and I keep thinking, I *should* care-- wouldnt' taht be the good, compassionate thing to do? But I don't-- i don't have pity for killers, even if they didn't know what they were doing at the time--I'm only concerned with them not being a threat to anyone else, whatever the means.
I think about Buffy, and all her trauma over who to kill, who not to.
And I look at it and say-- "It's easy honey. Vampires have to die-- not because they're evil, but because they kill humans. Any demon that is a threat to humanity, you kill. Any demon that isn't, you leave alone."
I say, screw Right vs Wrong, Good vs Evil. In a situation like Buffy's, the Slayer's responsibility isn't to right-- its to humanity. She's SO worried about doing "the right thing", whether it's ok to let a demon live like Spike or Clem, or to make an alliance with a demon to stop another demon.
Buffy should use a black and white view, but just not the one she's using now. Her black and white view should be "threat vs. no threat"--- NOT good/evil.
If Buffy followed this policy, then it wouldn't matter how deeply she got involved with Spike, because as long as he's not killing humans, he wouldn't be something to "deal" with at all--- he should become purely a non-issue. So she can have sex with him, love him, whatever--- his nature is unimportant, what's important is what he DOES. And if he's not killing, WHO CARES?!
If I were a Sunnydale resident, would I care that Buffy was sleeping with a nuetered vampire? NO. If he was guaranteed not to kill me or mine (like with a chip), what else he does or who else does him, means nothing.
Really, Buffy should just stop worrying so much over good and bad, and think of it in terms of ending threats, not fighting evil. If she didn't worry so much, she'd be more relaxed and happier too.
