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Lumifer comments on How to deal with Santa Claus? - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: jkadlubo 22 December 2014 05:50PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 24 December 2014 04:48:06PM 0 points [-]

Lying to your kids about certain classes of things is a great game, which, as others have pointed out, adults seem almost hard-wired to play.

And the same kind of lying by elder siblings to younger ones is even more widespread.