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*** World Peace through mind control and mass murder is still World Peace. Imagine a world where everyone is kind to each other. There is no crime. There are no wars, and there never will be again. There is no discrimination, no hate, and no violence. All humans live together in harmony with each other, in total happiness for the rest of eternity. In short: the Christian Heaven, absolute peace and bliss forever. That's what makes it ambiguous.
**** But there still would be crime - she was ''eating'' people! A few at a time, and quite frequently... It wouldn't ''be'' a World Peace situation, as there would still be killing.
**** You may be happy with world peace via humanity being turned into happy, brainless livestock, but people that actually value their individuality and free will wouldn't be. The fact that they're not even given the choice to be cheerfully led to the slaughter makes her pretty unambiguously evil.
** Aside from the issue of the virtues of free will (which are easy to proclaim when you live in a warm spacious broadband connected home and don't have to worry about some bullshit warlord coming and brutalising your family just because), my whole problem with that arc was that the characters, Angel specifically, spent four seasons bitching about how the Powers That Be never do anything to help them. When one finally does, they bitch even more because she doesn't do it quite how they would like. If I were Jasmine I would have pounded a hole in his ungrateful ass too.
*** Angel is trying to stop people from being victimized by creatures more dangerous than them. Jasmine proceeds to do that on a global scale.
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