maggie2

I wouldn't go so far as to say that they're robbing Buffy of her free will. Most of the plausible paths toward her robbing bank involved her exercise of free will. What they are saying is that how she exercised her free will is irrelevant to the consequences. Robbing banks is the same choice regardless of the circumstances behind it or the motivations driving one towards it. And yeah, in some sense, that means that it really just happened to her, since we're saying it doesn't matter how she came to chose it. So this is just splitting hairs with you (or me just saying the same thing in my own way). By telling us that Buffy's motives don't matter, they're telling us that she doesn't matter as an agent, even though they aren't denying that she's there by her own agency.