What do you means by "goes away"? Dean's – perhaps discomfort – for not having killed Sam?
Yeah, the whole 'save or kill' ultimatum. I think the idea that Sam could go darkside is always in the back of Dean's head, even post-S5.
I found the whole Amy thing frustrating. I totally buy that Dean would do what he did to Amy (although not that he'd threaten a frightened child in such a callous way--he's too sentimental about kids, and has personal knowledge of what it's like to witness your mother's violent death. It just felt OOC to me), but the way the show didn't give Sam a voice was annoying. Dean yelled at him for being very reasonably angry, and in the end Sam just agreed that oh yeah, Dean was right, Sam totally wasn't entitled to his feelings at all. The end. Ugh. That was such a pointless and unpleasant subplot.
You could claim it's nothing but a strong elmotional/psychological need, but I believe Dean really stands by it, believes it is the right thing to do.
You know,I was thinking of it mostly as an emotional/psychological need, but I think you're right that if you called Dean on it he'd tell you sincerely that it was the right thing to do.
The thing is, I'm not sure that Dean has a reasoned out moral code. He's deeply emotional and impulsive. I think he has incredibly strong feelings about what's right without really having any intellectual framework for it. He believes you need to eliminate threats to the innocent, and he believes you need to protect the people you love at all costs, and I doubt he's spent ten minutes contemplating the many ways that those two beliefs conflict.
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Yeah, the whole 'save or kill' ultimatum. I think the idea that Sam could go darkside is always in the back of Dean's head, even post-S5.
I found the whole Amy thing frustrating. I totally buy that Dean would do what he did to Amy (although not that he'd threaten a frightened child in such a callous way--he's too sentimental about kids, and has personal knowledge of what it's like to witness your mother's violent death. It just felt OOC to me), but the way the show didn't give Sam a voice was annoying. Dean yelled at him for being very reasonably angry, and in the end Sam just agreed that oh yeah, Dean was right, Sam totally wasn't entitled to his feelings at all. The end. Ugh. That was such a pointless and unpleasant subplot.
You could claim it's nothing but a strong elmotional/psychological need, but I believe Dean really stands by it, believes it is the right thing to do.
You know,I was thinking of it mostly as an emotional/psychological need, but I think you're right that if you called Dean on it he'd tell you sincerely that it was the right thing to do.
The thing is, I'm not sure that Dean has a reasoned out moral code. He's deeply emotional and impulsive. I think he has incredibly strong feelings about what's right without really having any intellectual framework for it. He believes you need to eliminate threats to the innocent, and he believes you need to protect the people you love at all costs, and I doubt he's spent ten minutes contemplating the many ways that those two beliefs conflict.