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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1268391" data-attributes="member: 6929">1 - I guess because there's something deep inside certain people that leads them to do things that would be deemed 'heroic'. It's a species-survival instinct. If something's out eating your kind, and you do nothing about it, your kind gets eaten. Doesn't matter whether it's a cave bear or a vampire, the instinct is still there. Buffy just knows that it's the right thing to do, fighting vamps, and wouldn't feel right not doing it.2 - Humility? It's going to get you a high profile if you get all these privileges, and Buffy's past is not one where a high profile is useful: as revealed in season 6, [spoiler]she spent time in an asylum before her parents split up, because someone read her diary and thought that all this talk of vampire slaying was just a bit alarming.[/spoiler]3 - Bureaucracy. (sp?) That, and the fact that they probably are doing something about it, somewhere else. This isn't the only hellmouth (see also: Cleveland), it isn't the only place where evil stalks (there are US specops teams in Central American jungles hunting demon infestations), and to boot, the local officials are not exactly going to put a stop to it all: the Mayor, as revealed in Season 2, [spoiler]is in fact seeking ultimate power by means of ritual, demon-summoning, and nastier things. He doesn't want the government stopping him, which explains why they only really set up shop once he's gone.[/spoiler]4 - The Watchers are getting a little complacent. They're used to getting their way, they're the culmination of many thousands of years of tradition. When someone gives them lip, they don't quite know what to do; they're supposed to be the boogeyman of the supernatural world, and the father figure to the Slayers, and when that breaks down they're a bit helpless.5,6,8 - Memory fades, it's been the best part of a decade.7 - Instinct. Why don't wolves use guns, bludgeons, etc? Because they can't, sure, but also because their key instincts are to jump on something and bite it, not stay at a distance. Vamps have been around all of human history; guns haven't, so if they'd been forced to rely on them, they'd be pretty screwed by the time guns actually appeared. Remember, a vamp isn't a human with pointy teeth, it's a vampire.9 - Not sure, but maybe they're used to the Safe Streets of Quiet Sunnydale. (Ha.) People typically don't have the urge to request obscure supernatural defences when wandering the streets. People are great at pretending horrible things won't happen to them. Above all, people get used to having a superhero to bail you out of trouble. Oh yeah, and Xander and Willow 'level' later on and take on vamps on their own in hand to hand combat.Those are my answers. Do they make sense?</blockquote>

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