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Originally posted by sum1
Yeah they weren't random, they were potentials. As in they had the potential to become slayers, not as in they were definitely going to become slayers. Only some potentials become slayers. It's been stated that the potentials that were made slayers by Willow's spell were hundreds or thousands in number. Do the math. Unless they were all to be slayers for only a really short time each (much shorter than usual for a slayer), there's no way they could all get to be slayers one after the other, not unless some were to become slayers when they were a few hundred years old or older.
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I'm willing to admit that I don't know for certain that all of the Potentials would have become Slayers. Are you willing to admit that NOT all of the Potentials would become Slayers?
And so what if they do become Slayers or not? It doesn't automatically mean that they will assume the duties of a Slayers. Some can make the choice NOT take part in Slayer duties. Buffy was never able to make that choice, because both Merrick and Giles had coerced her into assuming Slayer duties, despite her insistence that she wasn't interested.
The question is . . . were Buffy and the Scoobies willing to leave alone any Slayer who did not want to assume Slayer duties? Or did they use coercion, just as Merrick, Giles and other Watchers before them did?