Buffy's idealogy about killing humans
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I have always seen Buffy's views on killing humans to be that she doesn't ever want to take a human life, but if it's necessary to protect those that she loves and the world, she will. The cases you mentioned with the zookeeper, the coach, and Warren were all accidents, so I don't think it's fair at all to say Buffy had no issue with killing them. And maybe we don't see Buffy grieving her decisions about those men, but mostly it's because there's not time for her to grieve or there's a cut scene to a different day or something. So just because we don't see Buffy feeling badly for what she did in those cases doesn't mean she didn't.
The only time I ever thought Buffy's ideology about killing humans was screwed up was when she attempted to kill Faith to feed her to Angel. I understand her vision was clouded by her anger and desperation, but I never agreed with her reasoning for attempting to murder Faith.
The only time I ever thought Buffy's ideology about killing humans was screwed up was when she attempted to kill Faith to feed her to Angel. I understand her vision was clouded by her anger and desperation, but I never agreed with her reasoning for attempting to murder Faith.
My only problem with that was that it was too late and Faith miraculously survived. Faith was an enemy combatant who was working to destroy an entire town ad couldn't be held by normal jails (not to mention her boss apparently had the local judiciary system in his pocket). I always thought Buffy was way too nonchalant about giving murderers second (or tenth chances) - if the choice is between killing somebody or letting them keep on killing innocent people, going for "But, but killing somebody is wrong even if they are serial killers" is incredibly irresponsible.
In real life I don't support capital punishment but in fiction few things piss me off as good guys, who have ample proof that the evil guy has committed multiple atrocities and will most certainly try to continue doing so if given half a chance, decide that killing him will make them as bad as him. When this blows in their faces they are almost never blamed for the latest victims of the bad guy whom they could have saved. And often some other bad guy kills the original villain, saving the heroes from having to dirty their hands (like Adam did with Walsh).