I can't say I necessarily agree on your view of the body post-death, because... I guess I just do think it's more complicated than that. I don't think we as a society generally view a dead body as akin to a toy someone's done playing with, that it's ok to do whatever we want with it. We do have pretty complex understandings of the body, sometimes as something so personal to us that its treatment in death will affect the soul itself (even if that's not the logistical case in SPN. However we may feel in a fictional context, I don't feel like the general cultural understanding of the body is something that's simply "well, it's a pile of tissue now."
And yeah, Ruby is a demon, though she's certainly meant to be on of the "better" ones, and Sam is a human, even if he is meant to be going down a dark path. What worries me about having not seen the episode is that it may have totally been the case that all these moral concerns were addressed and the relationship itself was treated as something built on those issues. I'm just saying, that's why when I heard about this, despite in some ways being interested in the Ruby/Sam idea, felt "... well, ok, but it seems like there would be a ton of implications to that." And yeah, I'd apply all these issues to that GW thing.
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Date: 2008-11-15 07:02 pm (UTC)And yeah, Ruby is a demon, though she's certainly meant to be on of the "better" ones, and Sam is a human, even if he is meant to be going down a dark path. What worries me about having not seen the episode is that it may have totally been the case that all these moral concerns were addressed and the relationship itself was treated as something built on those issues. I'm just saying, that's why when I heard about this, despite in some ways being interested in the Ruby/Sam idea, felt "... well, ok, but it seems like there would be a ton of implications to that." And yeah, I'd apply all these issues to that GW thing.