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silabor:

lokitapendragon:

buticankarriyou:

Let’s not forget that Sam Winchester wholeheartedly believed that drinking demon blood and exorcising demons was a good thing, because he didn’t have to kill the human the demon was possessing.
He was saving people.

WHY DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND THIS.

All along Sam was led to believe, by John and by Dean, that their job was “saving people, hunting things.” Saving people. That was a good thing.
Dean dies. Sam is left alone, blaming himself for Dean’s death. God, why couldn’t I save him? If I hadn’t died in the first place… Sam’s life wasn’t worth Dean’s. Now Sam is here living a life he shouldn’t be living in the first place. He becomes a suicidal alcoholic and does everything he can to bring Dean back, even to the point of dying in a demon deal.
Enter Ruby. A master manipulator, she sees what Sam needs most: a reason to keep living. She gives it to him in the form of his demon blood powers. She shows him the good he can do with them.
Sam is elated. Suddenly, this thing that has corrupted him since he was six months old, instead of turning him into a monster, can now help him to do good. He can exorcise a demon without tying anyone down, without torture, without a painful exorcism, and, mostly importantly, without the knife. The knife that Sam knew would kill the host. The knife that got the job done but took an innocent life with it. Remember, Sam’s only desire is to do good by saving people. The knife is a means to an end, but it is not the means he wants to take.
His demon powers exorcised the demon without taking a life. That is what Sam was considering when he made his choice at the hands of his manipulator. He saw the good he could do with the curse he’d been given, and he decided to pursue that good.
tldr; Sam took the thing that had been turning him evil since he was a baby, and he turned it into a means to be good.