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Lying to children (Score:2)
In the late 1990's, when we were awash with "disaster miniseries" movies on network television, I decided that lying to children was one of the most despicable things you could ever do. It seems like every single one of those movies contained a scene where some child asked, "Is my mommy going to die?" and even though the outcome was obvious the protagonist/doctor/nurse/whoever lied through their teeth and said, "Your mommy is going to be just fine."
I'm not exactly sure what that was supposed to illustrat
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Re:Lying to children (Score:1)
There is no Santa
Your parents bought all these gifts
God is also fake
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Re:Lying to children (Score:2)
Not sure if this will make you chuckle or cry, but one reason my family does not do the Santa thing is that we DO believe in God and don't want children to later doubt because "Mom and Dad lied about this, so they could've lied about that."
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers