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Since everybody starts celebrating Christmas early here’s a Christmas themed philosophy question.

What are your thoughts on what Kevin does to Harry and Marv in the Home Alone movies. Personally I think he went way to hard on the guys. All these people wanted to do was break into the McAllister house and steal their stuff, they had no intention on harming Kevin.

Now you may say that he was just defending himself but if he’s smart enough to pull off all of these traps then surely he would be smart enough to leave something valuable on the ground and when they tried to pick the thing up a rope grabs them and ties them up.

Kevin was more than capable of doing so but he didn’t, he wanted to make them suffer so he put some elaborate traps around the sound that caused severe injury and to be honest, some of these traps could’ve killed them such as when the guy sticks his head into a toilet filled with gasoline only for a lit match to touch him. Hell, in the 2nd movie the guys offer a peace offering, if Kevin had given them the camera they wouldn’t enter the house but Kevin wanted them to suffer through all of his traps so instead he threw a brick on Marv’s head, knocking him out temporarily.

This clearly isn’t some kid who’s trying to protect himself from robbers but rather a child genius who will grow up to be a psychopath, some claiming that he turns into Jigsaw.

Don’t get me wrong, The Wet Bandits are bad guys and are also very stupid but that doesn’t excuse what Kevin did to them, it reminds me of what Cartman does to Scott Tenorman in the South Park episode Scott Tenorman Must Die except Harry and Marv felt physical pain while Scott felt psychological pain. In both cases the antagonist does something wrong and the protagonist goes way too far to make it in his favor.

As for what sentences I would give everybody I would first take The Wet Bandits to the hospital because that’s what good cops do to criminals who need to go there. After they got better I would give them a suspended sentence which means that you’re good to go for now but if you commit any more crimes you’re paying for this one in addition to that one. As for Kevin, I wouldn’t put him in jail but I’d force him to have a psychological exam and I might temporarily place him in a mental hospital depending on the results of the exam. If they went through all of this and still did what they did in the 2nd movie the following year, they’d both go to jail, The Wet Bandits for home invasion and Kevin for vicious assault.

I think Kevin is ok, i mean…you wanna enter my house and steal some stuff? ok, but you must pass a series of tests that prove you as the right thief to take my stuff. It’s up to you whether you want to continue or not.

It seems that most of the topics I’ve brought up in this thread don’t affect me, issues like abortion and feminism are fun to discuss but they don’t affect me so I thought today since I have at least 10 ideas of things to put in this thread and have put so many ideas in this thread already that you can call this thread something like Dark Overlord’s philosophy thread that I’d do an issue that affects me.

Do you think adults should be able to have friendly and not sexual relationships with minors. I think it’s perfectly fine as long as the relationship isn’t sexual, if an 18 year old man has a 11 year old friend and the relationship is friendly, not sexual, than I’m all for it, the 18 year old clearly isn’t a pedophile because he wants to have a friendly relationship but knows that having sex with the minor is wrong and isn’t even aroused by the minor and just wants to be friends. Sadly, the 18 year old will be told that he could end up in jail because they’ll think he’s a pedophile, a stereotype that he hates, so he discouraged from being friends from hanging out with this kid by his parents and many other people in fear of getting arrested although the 18 year old would really like to hang out with the 11 year old some day.

If you’re wondering why I said this affects me, it’s because the above statement is a true statement about me and my 11 year old friend who I’m discouraged from seeing because I’m scared that I will end up in jail even though I clearly don’t want to have sex with him because that’s wrong and messed up. It’d be cool to take him to the mall or Chuck E. Cheeses or somewhere fun where an 11 year old would like to go but because of the stereotype that all men who hang around with boys are pedophiles, I don’t in fear of prison time and to a lesser extent the parents reacting negatively to the friendship.

Starr Shine? said
Also Abortion and feminism can affect you. Especially the latter.

Good point, there’s the whole taxpayer funded abortions thing (which I think is messed up IMO) and some feminists are trying to or have done things that affect men and those things could affect me, although it doesn’t affect me nearly as much as being able to have a non sexual relationship with a minor does so I should’ve said that it doesn’t affect me as much. Thanks for pointing that out.

What are your thoughts on cultural appropriation. Personally, I think it’s racist to tell people of certain races that they can’t do certain things that are part of another race’s culture. For example, I see nothing wrong with a black guy wearing a Native American costume or a Chinese person wearing a kilt or a white person sharing Michael Jackson GIFs on the internet. In fact, I love the idea of mixing various cultures together because I think it shows racial equality because if any race can do any thing related to any race, then there’s no racism to be had. I can understand why people would want to have this but calm down, let people do their own thing regardless of their race.