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Hmm true, in that case I wonder why Xander got away with so much. Did the fact that he was the good guy sidekick who was somewhat based on Joss as a teenager guarantee him a free pass more, or did the writers just not have the interest in taking his character seriously? I think they didn't care about his character that much towards the end definitely but, like the blog points out, there did also seem to be the assumption that because Xander was set up as the good guy then that was enough to excuse anything shady he did. (Again in Once More With Feeling there's Xander being responsible for a spell where someone burned to death and it's all played as a joke, yet at the same time Willow's cavalier use of magic on her friends is a big theme of that season)