Is Santa a hoax?
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Know what's more problematic than telling children Santa is real?
Unnecessarily hyperbolic assholism.
How to concern troll.
Step 1, identify core values of your audience.
Step 2, portray your own values as even more strict and concerned as audience.
Step 3, be the biggest asshole you can while attempting to enforce the even-stricter values.
A conservative estimate would be you've identified over 95% of conservatives as the enemy. You've taken over a century of American culture and shit all over it.
Not only that. These children are led into thinking presents from santa are the entire reason for Christmas and it detaches the spirit of giving between family and what God gave the world, His one and only Son Jesus Christ.
Quite literally says Christmas-> Christ Mass.
It is sad.
Ah I thought this too it has become apparent that cultures have always regulated what and how much "truth" children see. It seems as appropriate to keep children innocent until an agreed upon time which our culture has chose as 18. Its hard to see how the lie of tooth fairy, Santa etc helps because the true meaning is hidden an obscured. The idea use to be that you would give a gift, not Santa would bring one for you but simple things like this have changed and made it seem as it is. I think it's important there a "lies" kept by parents from there children just like how I see it's highly inappropriate for those vegetarian activists to stand in public places with a TV screen showing cows being slaughtered, while young children sre watching. Its the same for murder, rape etc it goes on but we dont have to have young children understanding and being showed it. I mean if your father owns an abittoir maybe you will be subject to that truth earlier.
I'm with you. I lost some trust in my parents when I figured these things out. I don't talk Santa Claus to my son, even though his mother does. Childhood can be wonderful without Satan Claus, The Easter Bunny, or any other distraction from a Christian holiday. To anyone who thinks I'm an asshole: you can keep doing what you want to do, and I'll do what I want to do. Live and let live.
The real obscenity is blatantly ignoring the numerous ways we deceive children, and the necessity of doing so. Imagination is an important part of childhood development.