chapotraphouse

So, the guy being played by Newman is clearly a huge douchebag, but really, what he's doing isn't THAT BAD when you consider the fact he isn't aware that the toys are sentient.

Some nerd swipes a rare toy at a yard sale and tries to sell it to a Japanese museum, okay dick move but also not something I'd argue he deserves to have his entire career destroyed over. Yet we're supposed to root for his downfall because he actually kidnapped a sapient being, but HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

Same thing with Sid in the first movie. Yeah his propensity for mangling his toys perhaps suggests some mental health problems that should be addressed, but they are from his perspective inanimate objects. The Toy Story movies ask you to pass moral judgement on humans for injustices they inflict on thing that are inanimate from their perspective, only because we the audience are aware that secretly they are in fact living being with wills of their own. But that fact is something the toys intentionally keep hidden from humans, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW IT'S WRONG TO THROW AWAY MY RATTY OLD TEDDY BEAR IF I'M NOT AWARE IT HAS A SOUL!?!?!?!?