Post #1194942

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.