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When [[Castiel]] rescues [[Sam]] from [[Lucifer's Cage]], his soul remained trapped in the Cage until [[Death]] retrieved it for him. Without his soul, [[Sam]] feels no empathy, guilt or compassion. He is not evil, but rather lacks any moral compass, willing to resort to more questionable actions, such as allowing [[Dean]] to become a [[vampire]] to help them find an [[Alpha]], albeit also knowing that there was a cure for vampirism, than he might consider when normal. While he continues to have physical needs for food and sex, he doesn't sleep, and has a high tolerance for pain. On other occasions that people have lost their souls, they have had different reactions. When people's souls were stolen by [[Abaddon]]'s demons, they appeared to act on basic instinct with the littlest thing setting them off. As this was different from Soulless Sam, Sam suggests that different people have different reactions to losing their soul.<ref name="nine17">[[9.17 Mother's Little Helper]]</ref> Additionally, [[Amara]]'s soulless victims tended to quickly become homicidal and one noted that it felt like something dark was hatching inside of him.<ref name="eleven05">[[11.05 Thin Lizzie]]</ref><ref name="eleven06">[[11.06 Our Little World]]</ref>
After losing his soul, [[Donatello Redfield]] remained mostly the same by using "what would Mr. Rogers do?" as his moral compass.<ref name="thirteen02" /> The only time this changed was when Donatello was corrupted by the power of the [[tablet|demon tablet]] without his soul there to filter out whatever darkness existed inside of the tablet.<ref name="thirteen14" /> After being saved from brain death, Donatello resumed his usual [[soulless]] personality without the corruption.<ref name="fourteen12" /> He would later describe to [[Jack Kline]] having no soul as emptiness: no pity, no empathy, no humanity though he stated that losing your soul doesn't make you anything. He believed that by following the example of the best person you knew in uncertain situations, a soulless person could live a relatively normal life.<ref name="fourteen15" />
[[Death]] reveals that souls are so powerful that even he can't break them. They can be damaged, but never broken. When [[Ghost|ghosts]] are put to rest, their souls are not destroyed; they are simply ferried by a [[reaper]] to their final destination, though it had been believed by many hunters to be "death" for them with oblivion waiting for them afterwards.
