I was thinking about this the other day and realized something:
Back when the modern Santa character was first being developed, coal was a genuinely useful thing. It was fuel for the stove which heated your house and cooked your food. It was a basic necessity of life.
If you were naughty, Santa didn’t just give you nothing. You weren’t going to get an awesome toy, but he made sure you weren’t going to freeze to death on Christmas, either.
Santa believes everyone deserves to live. That having a warm place to sleep is a basic human right.
This might be /r/im14andthisisdeep material, but I just thought that was interesting.
I was thinking about this the other day and realized something:
Back when the modern Santa character was first being developed, coal was a genuinely useful thing. It was fuel for the stove which heated your house and cooked your food. It was a basic necessity of life.
If you were naughty, Santa didn’t just give you nothing. You weren’t going to get an awesome toy, but he made sure you weren’t going to freeze to death on Christmas, either.
Santa believes everyone deserves to live. That having a warm place to sleep is a basic human right.
This might be /r/im14andthisisdeep material, but I just thought that was interesting.