Oh, I totally agree that a good deed being done does not equal the person doing it being a good person by default. (And I'd not only apply this to Spike, but to Angel, Buffy, Wood, Faith, Anya, Willow, Andrew, and other characters who I see as having moral issues that some of their fans -- I'm sure Wood has fans -- want to wipe clean simply because they've done good things.) But there are really people out there who have made the arguments that if a deed is done out of any sort of search for love, personal satisfaction, what have you, it cannot be good. I've read these posts. They're... well, I'll be kind and not say anything at all.

Whereas I'm in the camp saying, "Dude, I do not care that the reason the pediatric AIDS foundation got $20 million in donations was because Mafia bosses were trying to prove they had more money to throw around without it being traced back to them. (Or other similarly unrealistic situation, heh.) Look at the money!"