Will nobody think of the children?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1658780]

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The funny thing is there's no hard and fast rule - Santa is a big thing, where learning he's a fabrication is almost a coming of age ritual, whereas the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy are a light hearted ruse. It's almost like the (potential) benefits scale with the severity of the lie, all the way up to salvation and paradise in the afterlife.

In the end, they're all ways to answer questions that avoid additional questions. With all our intelligence, we still don't want to admit we don't know.