Responding to Spike's romantic advances in "Fool For Love" (S5), Buffy rebuffs him personally and relegates him to a lower caste of being; undeserving of consideration, compassion, and universal (if not human) rights. Vampires in the Buffy-verse represent the indigenous population of earth ("Welcome to the Hellmouth" S1) displaced by human encroachment and forced to Un-live on the fringes of society, feared, mistrusted, and barred from participation in primary social activities. This paper correlates the social structure of vampirism in Buffy and Angel to Erving Goffman's theoretical work on stigma and spoiled identity. Goffman defines stigma as "an attribute that is deeply discrediting," one that causes the primary social group to view an individual as insignificant, unworthy, and potentially dangerous. He further delineates "tribal stigma" as one that is "transmitted through lineages" affecting all members of a subgroup equally. Vampires, by virtue of their means of reproduction (or replication), and negative attributes of bloodsucking and soullessness, constitute a class of individuals stigmatized on the basis of their tribal association. A review of seven seasons of Buffy and ongoing episodes of Angel demonstrates that vampires can and do strive for social acceptance and can become rehabilitated either by choice or misadventure. Viewing the Buffy-verse through the lens of Goffman's study of stigma, this paper also explores the ethical implications of the premeditated act of slaying.  If vampires can break their addiction to human blood, hold down jobs, and even regain a soul, can staking without attempt at rehabilitation be morally defensible?