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Date Posted: 16:37:28 12/15/05 Thu
Author: anom
Subject: Re: moral ambiguity
In reply to: EvilLawyer 's message, "Re: moral abiguity" on 20:44:18 12/11/05 Sun

But Lindsey's whole "Evil hand!!!" act was an act. The "Kill Kill Kill" the hand was writing was a plea from Brad to Lindsey to kill him, & the man who received the eye stabbed that eye but didn't try to kill anyone else; there's no evidence that their "body parts keep trying to kill everybody." Then there's the question of whether Brad would still want to die if he could get out of the life support tank thing & get a prosthesis & rehab treatment. (Disabled in Action would have something to say about the idea that losing a body part makes life not worth living!)

As for the morality of who gets helped, Angel tells Lindsey (according to the transcript), "They're gonna be coming in force. We got to help the ones that we can." The guards had been knocked out but wouldn't stay that way long. They'd alert W&H, who'd send more & better armed guards, & possibly already had--maybe Angel heard them coming. In that situation, the ones they could help were most likely to be the ones who were mobile enough to get outside on their own. Although Angel could probably have carried at least 2 of the ones who couldn't.

This is kind of like the situation w/Buffy in Anne, where she gets 1 group of the human slaves out of Ken's dimension but leaves the rest behind. On the one hand, there is a limit to what either of them could do. On the other, to some extent it's symbolic. Frankly, I'd rather there'd been some acknowledgment on the shows that they'd had to leave some of the people behind, but I can understand it. What I have more of a problem with is that in Dead End, Angel actually kills the rest of the body-part donors when he torches the lab! Maybe Brad was meant to be speaking for all of the "chopped," but in any real-life situation, I wouldn't assume that 1 person speaks for all.

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