wedrifid comments on The Santa deception: how did it affect you? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 September 2011 09:04:45AM 11 points [-]

I... I don't even... he Photoshopped the evidence into their actual hiking expedition... but... look, how far does this have to go before your kids are justified in wondering whether the world around them was created by you for the sole purpose of deceiving them?

Comment author: wedrifid 23 September 2011 03:26:09PM 5 points [-]

I know, and come on, just how stupid are those kids if they believe that? I mean everyone knows that Ewoks live on the forest moon of Endor. And that's in a galaxy far, far away. Not only that it was a long time ago. They didn't occupy a stable evolutionary niche so the species as we know it wouldn't even exist now. If the kids believe they see Ewoks that must mean that they haven't been taught about evolution. What sort of parent would do that to their children?