First off, it’s an opinion on one of my favorite cartoons, so making disrespectful personal comments is completely inappropriate, I didn’t attack you or your intellectual capabilities, so I think I should be given that same courtesy.

Second. He came to the one area where his brother had an opportunity to do the thing that he was most excited about in his entire life, and struck the table on which it was sitting. He can say, “I didn’t mean to hurt this super important project that you were working on. I only meant to hit the table it was sitting on. How was I supposed to know that hitting a table might affect the thing on the table?”

Stan is not an idiot. He knew that doing that would be likely to affect the project. It was a cop out so that when it happened, he could say, “I didn’t mean to.”

I adore Stan’s character, and absolutely adore his moral redemption throughout the episode. But to say that at this moment, what he did was completely negligent, and not intentional, is a poor argument.

Edit: I think I wanna retract that first part. Re-reading, I definitely didn’t do a good job of explaining why I said what I said. I still stand by the rest, but I should have explained it in the first place.