In tax terms however Angel is regressive and Buffy progressive - taking from people according to their ability to pay rather than exploiting their desperation. However I suspect lusciousxander was specifying S2 not S1 Angel because the point was that it's perfectly possible to sympathsise with someone doing something you believe to be wrong (like locking a bunch of human lawyers in a room with two psychotic, hungry vampires).

I do wonder whether people's rejection of Buffy is related to her being a woman, I'm sure if Spike were to rob a bank he wouldn't provoke quite such a moralising response. Alternatively if Buffy's main/only function in the story is to inspire goodness in the fallen, whether Spike, Faith or Angel, I could see how she might be judged harshly by fans of those characters.