Poll: So you're trick-or-treating and...morality!

[XMark]

I would usually take 3 or 4 back when I was a kid. Strangely enough, I have never seen one of those bowls empty.

 

[Dags90]

Well, there's two kinds of handfuls. Do you mean take a couple extra, as in four or five instead of one? Or do you mean as much as I can damn fit in my hand (I have large hands, long fingers). I might do the former, but the latter seems excessive.

Remember, you're 10 in this hypothetical. Unless you have a case of arachnodactyly, you probably had reasonably small hands when you were 10.

 

[Winthrop]

Having been in that situation, I only took one. My personal moral code matters much more to me than candy, even at that age.

 

[DragonStorm247]

Well, there's two kinds of handfuls. Do you mean take a couple extra, as in four or five instead of one? Or do you mean as much as I can damn fit in my hand (I have large hands, long fingers). I might do the former, but the latter seems excessive.

Remember, you're 10 in this hypothetical. Unless you have a case of arachnodactyly, you probably had reasonably small hands when you were 10.

You'd be surprised. I've always had really long fingers due to playing a lot of piano and video games. I could easily grab at least 10+ piece of candy at that age.

 

[Alssadar]

I would take a handful, or a couple candies. Therefore, I get more candy, but still allow people to get some as well. I'm not greedy.

At age ten, I believe I was dressed up as Link from LoZ.

 

[Landrius]

I would take only one piece of a single kind of candy--although I'd make it one that I like--because stealing wrong and I would be a horrible, terrible, mean kid who doesn't deserve any candy at all if I did something bad.

That would pretty much be my thought process if I were 10 again and in this situation. I think I was a few times, but since I was always in a group of kids being directly supervised when I was young enough to Trick-or-Treat, the "alone with a bucket of candy; to plunder or not to plunder?" situation never really happened.

I don't remember what I was when I was ten, though. A pterodactyl? A stormtrooper? A power ranger? Something like that.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

I'd certainly take more than one piece, but I wouldn't take it all. The fact that there's any left to take means that the people before me were kind enough not to take all of it, and I'd like to extend the same courtesy to other trick-or-treaters.

 

[BarbaricGoose]

I'd be 10; I wouldn't even know what the word "Morality" meant.

I'd obviously take all the candy, if no one was watching.

 

[Hagi]

Why am I the only one who voted half?

It's a hilarious option that deserved a vote.

You people have no sense of humour whatsoever!

 

[NightmareWarden]

Take a small handful. I've seen people leave a bowel of candy on a chair on the lawn on the lap of a costume. Someone tries to grab the whole bowel? SURPRISE, the costume was really an adult who just scared the crap out of you. May come with squirt guns. If I were to do this, I'd use silly string.

Is it even possible to grab someones entire bowel? That's messed up dude.

I would fix this, but where's the fun in that? This is what happens when you don't say trick or treat...You get tricked!

 

[soren7550]

Ten year old me would, in those situations, take a few. Modern day me would probably take the whole bowl because I am a dick like that.

I think when I was ten, I went as a Hogwarts student. Or maybe that was the year I went as Hermione after she drank the Pollyjuice Potion in Chamber of Secrets? It was probably Harry Potter related.

 

[ccggenius12]

He would be dressed as "what the fuck is that" man. My sister did my costumes for halloween (she was 19 when I was 10) and she was bloody clueless. Ended up covered in bandages, fake blood and a purple wig.

To this day no one knew what the fuck it was supposed to be.

Shemp, you were Shemp. You see, it doesn't matter what you look like, you can fill in for Shemp.
I'd take one piece, and I'd probably have been dressed as a Power Ranger. Honestly, if I could find some decent movie quality props and costume, I'd probably be a Power Ranger this year. It's "kitsch". Probably would have wanted to be the Green Ranger as a kid, Blue holds far more appeal now.