Again, you are looking at it from your own perspective, not Buffy's.
Also, you don't know what you would do in any given situation until it actually happens. There's been studies on this actually, a quite famous study about a bunch of volunteers who swore they'd never willingly torture someone. And they did. We don't know what we'd do. We think we do. There's a film that handles this issue from a realistic perspective entitled "CRASH" - where a bunch of characters find themselves in situations and acting in ways they never thought they would. Good, wonderful souls - behave abominably. Nasty people - behave beautifully. I have learned in life, that it is not simple. People don't behave predictably. We do not know what we will do. We can guess. But we don't know.
Buffy is an interesting psychological horror story, with a lot of comedy. The characters are deeply flawed. What I love most about it - is that nice characters do nasty things, and evil characters occassionally do wonderful things. It makes it interesting. And yep, people are hypocritcal. But that's realistic too.
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Date: 2009-07-09 02:19 am (UTC)Also, you don't know what you would do in any given situation until it actually happens. There's been studies on this actually, a quite famous study about a bunch of volunteers who swore they'd never willingly torture someone.
And they did. We don't know what we'd do. We think we do. There's a film that handles this issue from a realistic perspective entitled "CRASH" - where a bunch of characters find themselves in situations and acting in ways they never thought they would. Good, wonderful souls - behave abominably.
Nasty people - behave beautifully. I have learned in life, that it is not simple. People don't behave predictably. We do not know what we will do. We can guess. But we don't know.
Buffy is an interesting psychological horror story, with a lot of comedy. The characters are deeply flawed. What I love most about it - is that nice characters do nasty things, and evil characters occassionally do wonderful things. It makes it interesting. And yep, people are hypocritcal. But that's realistic too.