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I still don't get the killing people thing. I mean if it means they're bound to your hell dimension or your undead army, yeah, there's some logic there, albeit creepy. But when he's trying to be the boss of everyone and then he starts killing them? That's like getting an all time high score and then just throwing ten percent of it out for the LOLs. I don't get it.

That's because you aren't evil :D

We don't really know what the Master was trying to do but he didn't seem to have much direct use for humans other than his immediate staff and the few slaves he needed for his missiles, so he wasn't losing anything by killing some. His main enjoyment seemed to be in proving that he could do anything he wanted, and one of the biggest proofs was that he had absolute power over people including the ability to kill them. He was a boy squashing flies - they were there and he could, so he did. That's what makes him evil rather than just amoral.


I think the reason we don't see much about soul purchase from the purchaser's POV is because the metaphor doesn't work as strongly from that side. 'Selling your soul' normally means sacrificing your ethical values for material gain. 'Buying a soul' just means bribing someone to do what you want and that is a fairly boring exchange from that angle - they either will or they won't. It also has all the connotations of grubby meanness that go with bribery, and the implication that actually the briber isn't all that powerful after all since if they had real power they could coerce and command rather than having to bribe.

Are you watching Being Human? Mitchell's current storyline could be said to be about seeing soul purchase from the other side of the coin since he is having to bribe various officials to get done what needs to be done.