Very young children do BELIEVE in Santa Claus. Are we wrong to encourage this erroneous belief? Should we dispense with "benevolent lies" and give them the unvarnished cold hearted truth?
I think that our duty rests less in revealing to the innocent the cruelties of reality and more in abating the cruelties of reality to accord with the view of the innocent.
Very young children do BELIEVE in Santa Claus. Are we wrong to encourage this erroneous belief? Should we dispense with "benevolent lies" and give them the unvarnished cold hearted truth?
I think that our duty rests less in revealing to the innocent the cruelties of reality and more in abating the cruelties of reality to accord with the view of the innocent.