If the Anointed one had continued

[Ethan Reigns]

In AtS, we see Holtz kill his own daughter after she is turned, so killing off vampire children is obviously not off the table.

But Spike spoke for most of us when he called him "The Annoying One".

 

[Lyri]

[MENTION=6332]Lyri[/MENTION] Of course Buffy killing a child vampire or not would have been worse than her having succeeded in killing Faith.

Well, I'm one of those small number of fans who would have liked to have seen Buffy's reaction to her killing Faith, but I agree with [MENTION=7336]ILLYRIAN[/MENTION] it's hasn't really got anything to do with Buffy killing a child vampire.

In AtS, we see Holtz kill his own daughter after she is turned, so killing off vampire children is obviously not off the table.

No, but Holtz was, technically, the bad guy of that season, and the next time we see a child vampire, she's in the hands of Angelus and we don't actually know if she was killed or not. But a child vampire being taken out by a Black Hat is vastly different than seeing a hero dispatch one.

 

[Ethan Reigns]

Another example of a child killing that we do not see in "I Only Have Eyes for You" 2x19:

"Angelus: (walks back) Let's get outta here. I need a real vile kill
before sunup to wipe this crap out of my system.

He pulls on his jacket over his still-unbuttoned shirt. Drusilla comes
up to him and growls. He snarls back.

Drusilla: Of course. We'll find you a nice toddler. (snarls)"

@ Lyri

At the moment Holtz killed his vampire daughter, he was not yet the full-blown single-minded vampire hunter he later turned out to be and he was not obviously a vengeful black hat character at that point.

 

[Lyri]

At the moment Holtz killed his vampire daughter, he was not yet the full-blown single-minded vampire hunter he later turned out to be and he was not obviously a vengeful black hat character at that point.

No, he wasn't, at least not in his own, personal history. But WE knew that he was clearly going to be one of the bad guys. We also knew that, in his life, he WAS a single-minded vampire hunter. It's the reason he's able to kill his own daughter, and it's also the catalyst that turned him into the man he became.

 

[Cordy_Chase]

At the moment Holtz killed his vampire daughter, he was not yet the full-blown single-minded vampire hunter he later turned out to be and he was not obviously a vengeful black hat character at that point.

That had been the turning point from which Holtz the vampire hunter was born. Don't forget that the time period in which that had taken place was one in which a being rising from the dead was a sin, considered to be the work of the devil. It was a world only about 100 years after they had executed innocent people at the drop of one word, witch. In those days religion was a way of life, and purity was the law. In Holtz's time he would have been considered a sinner had he kept a vampire and as far as he was concerned the thing he sent out to burn was not his daughter. This concept has been discussed or implied a few times.

I can't remember the episode but when that woman visits Team Angel on Holtz's agenda but with the true story of how she was forced shut her turned son out of the house until sunrise killed him.
"You did the right thing. He would have killed you if you'd let him in. It wasn't your son." Or maybe he had said at another point "Your son never came home that night." I know he said something about the being she'd killed not really being her son.

 

[ILLYRIAN]

Where has all this 'I love Holtz' type of crap come from?
Holtz was a church loving God fearing type of person who chose to be a disciple of a demon, a disciple of the devil.

This discussion started out being if the hero (Buffy) should not kill a child, vampire or not.
Not about some idiotic self-professed religious zealot, turned fanatic who then ignored the church completely by accepting help from a demon and thereby from the devil.
Then to top that Holtz tried to kill Angel; a demon that wanted to renounce his evil ways, who chose to do good and be acceptable to God. Hadn't Holtz ever heard that God sits in judgement? That he may forgive?
That wasn't good enough for Holtz, he wanted revenge and by doing so declared sod the church and sod God.
And now you want to go on about if it'd be okay for Holtz to kill a vampire, his child, his daughter.