So Supernatural was on last night, which means time for the weekly round of "who's the biggest jerk and why, and who owes what to who..." Since I’ve been reading a lot about it, I'm going to say ...(
why I think I think Castiel's transgressions coming to light is irrelevant. Possibly spoilers inside. )
You raise some interesting points and if you've not read it yet, I recommend taking a look at this meta by ahania. She's got some interesting points about culpability as well ( ... )
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You know, that's a good point. I'd argue though that the issue is once the kid knows the full truth, there's potentially no other chance to deal with him. It would be all or nothing at that point because once the kid was aware he could do anything, there was no stopping him. In the end though, I think it's significant that Sam's plan turned out to be the best - Dean wanted to take a middle path and tell him just enough of the truth to keep them from getting in trouble and the demon exposed them, Castiel wanted to kill him but even unaware of what he could do, the kid zapped him into a toy. Which left Sam's plan and means that Jesse remains a very, very dangerous wildcard.
I'm glad that they didn't kill the boy. I don't like the concept of anyone being so powerful in SPN, personally, which is why I hope we don't see him again ( ... )
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would be OOC for Dean.
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I'd argue almost that Dean seems to get that Castiel isn't human more often than most other characters do. He demands that Castiel react from a human-centric mindset often enough, but he didn't hold it against Castiel that he was willing to slaughter an entire town in ITGP,SW, after all. Likewise, Castiel proved to him exactly how inhuman he could be in 4x02 when he threatened to send Dean back to Hell - and he didn't seem to have any issues (outwardly, at least) with Uriel threatening to do the same in 4x10.
That was S4, though, and before Dean counted Castiel among his own. Makes me wonder if that perspective has changed now that we're in S5!
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Calling Sam out on it isn't wrong - calling Sam out on it while advocating the murder of an innocent child at the same time, though, is pretty pocritical. The difference between Sam and Castiel now is that Sam hasn't once tried to blame anyone else for his mistakes, and that's all Castiel's doing right now.
I want Castiel to be held culpabale - however, it's going to take a while to get there. He's not human and we can't expect him to think like us. He's also not Anna, who lived a life as a human and learned how to think like one. He's an infant ( ... )
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Calling Sam out on it isn't wrong - calling Sam out on it while advocating the murder of an innocent child at the same time, though, is pretty pocritical.
I don't see how what he said was hypocritical there. It thought he was just using the practical example of just hoping that somebody will make the right decision. Sam knew his powers were demonic but it didn't lead to him listening to Dean rather than Ruby, so it's better to just take out the threat of this kid with super powers. Could Sam say for sure that if he was in Jesse's position he'd surely make the right choice? Of course not. Sam knows other things can come into play. It's not like Castiel is saying Sam is immoral while advocating something immoral himself. Sam thinks they should let Jesse make his own choice, Castiel's saying they shouldn't risk him choosing against them.
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I'd go a little further--I have a huge problem with him calling Sam out at all when he could have made sure Sam's choices did not have disastrous consequences with a single sentence, but repeatedly chose not to. But the the part where he was castigating Sam for doing exactly the same thing he was at that moment doing adds a special layer of hypocrisy, certainly.
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