The Glade 4.0

It's nice to get a reminder every now & then that Lex is still a douche.

Parents who lie to their children are douches.

Telling children about Santa isn't lying. It's make-believe. Small children do not fully understand the difference between fantasy and reality; reading them any sort of fictional story could be construed as lying if we go with your idiotic ideas.

But then, we should keep in mind you're really not doing anything except trying to antagonize people anyhow. I doubt very much that you actually give two shits about this issue beyond the stir it's created here.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I love Christmas but I do hate the commercialism, the stores start putting things out almost after Halloween now, and Black Friday is just a joke. People stand in line for hours for the same "deal" the stores offer a few days later, let alone the fact it's only a few dollars cheaper than it normally would be.

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

How many people died this year? I don't keep up with the news anymore.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There's no way it's even that high.

No, it's actually like saying the opposite of that. If the kids go to their classes, i.e. learn about science, THEN they can figure things out on their own.

In fact, I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how you got "no need to go to class" from my disagreement with you saying "we shouldn't bother teaching kids about science".

It's nowhere near "less than 1%?" Wow. You appear to be stating that negative numbers of people felt betrayed by their parents when they found out Santa wasn't real. I suspect it's more like 1/20 - 1/50, but you're saying even the 1/1000 (the figure I used conservatively to come up with "millions") is way too high.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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1% is 1/100. And yes, I am quite confident that far, far less than 1 in 100 children have been injured in any way by the story of Santa claus. I'd say it's much closer to 0%. But hey, if you can back up your numbers, have at it.

And I suspect, though I cannot demonstrate this, that a higher percentage have benefitted from the story, through increased imagination, fond childhood memories, etc.

1% would have been 10s of millions. I gave the conservative example of "less than 1%."



And children not told the Santa Claus lie have no other or different options provided for excersizing imagination, nor are they likely to have fond childhood memories, then?

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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It's not conservative just because you say it is. A "conservative estimate" is an estimate that is so obviously true, it can be supported without data. This is not.



And kids with trust issues who were lied to about Santa weren't lied to about anything else or abused in any other way?

Now... here is a flipside question...

How many kids, when told the truth about Santa, already knew and were just letting their parents think that the kids believed?

We actually just officially told our youngest this year.

But an hour after we told her... she came and told me she has known for a few years, but her mom and I just got so into it, it was fun to just let us go.

My eldest has so much fun buying presents for her brothers and sisters and saying they are from Santa.. that way the kids get confused when Lisa and I do not know what the present is... SHE is the cruel one.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

I'd say that is extremely common.