"Uh, well, Jack Frost doesn't want to lie about Santa being a thing so that's... nice?"

"Do we have any reason to want Jack Frost not to become Santa? ....is there some reason he hasn't already murdered Santa to become Santa himself?"

"...We are at all competent at our job."

"So there is in fact at least one person out there who is motivated to cause my death at all times, and he doesn't need to kill me directly, he just needs to be more causally related to my death than anyone else is. And the last Santa died repairing a roof."

"Uh. He hasn't killed any Santas yet? --And we don't really care that much about the difference between different human Santas but Jack Frost wants to make us work fifteen hours a day with no days off and then sell our toys." (He is clearly more offended by the concept of selling toys than by working fifteen hours a day.)

"Oh. OK. So we should avoid that, then. - Can he actually force you to do that, though, like, you can disobey him, and you seem like you're more powerful than Santa anyway, and - if worst comes to worst, what happens if an elf kills Santa?"

"I can't kill Santa. That would be-- killing Santa."

"I mean - you probably could? You couldn't use magic, but you could, like, stab him, if things got bad enough, right? There's no reason you actually can't?"

"There's no reason you can't, like, stab your kid, right?"

"I guess. But like - I don't hate my kid, and I haven't been enslaved for however many years, and also there's only one of me, and magical manslaughter charges aside, I think I'm pretty low on the stabbiness, compared to most people."

"Okay but-- humans don't stab their kids, they don't, even when their kids are being incredibly obnoxious, it's just-- not the sort of thing humans do, not unless they're insane. That's what it's like for us about stabbing Santa."

"I dunno, plenty of people stab them before they're out. And we used to leave them on mountainsides to die if we thought they were cursed. But yes, I see your point."

"Humans stab babies?!"

"Well - I'm not an expert on state-of-the-art methods of killing babies, but, uh, sometimes people get pregnant and don't want to be and they decide this calls for drastic action." How do you explain abortion to elves from the north pole who just now learned that slavery wasn't a thing in the rest of the world anymore.

"...That's really bad. You shouldn't kill babies."

"Yeah, yes, I agree it's really bad. I'm not sure whether there's a way to apply the Christmas spirit to it in any way, but... yeah."

"--I guess the world has lots of problems and I just didn't know about that one but. Wow. There are a lot of problems."

"It's a pretty bad problem! But yeah. We have a lot."

"Mostly we elves know about problems from the letters kids send us. You know, 'what I want for Christmas is for mommy to stop crying' or 'what I want for Christmas is a home to stay in' or 'what I want for Christmas is for my daddy to stop hitting my mommy.'" 

"Yeah. All problems. There are also, uh, worse problems than that, but I think some of them mostly happen to kids who don't have access to the postal services. Or paper."

"We get the letters if they want to write letters to Santa but can't, we-- don't get ones from the kids who don't know Santa exists at all."

"Yeah. Which is probably a pretty common state of affairs in - well, everywhere, but probably even more common in rural India or wherever."

"...Do we need to give presents to the kids in rural India."

"I mean I think they would appreciate it, what with the dire poverty and all? How do you usually decide who gets presents?"

"Well, if the kids have done more nice things than naughty things over the course of the year, they get a present, scaled according to what we can make the parents believe they bought for the kid."