Father Christmas/Tooth Fairy aren't inherantly damaging (or inherantly lies) it just depends on how you approach them. As a "Be good, or FC will leave coal in your stocking!" it's probably bad, but if you do it in a way that kind of weaves in with children's general fantasy-world, and that can be good. All fiction/stories are inherantly lies, but the approach works - you have to get people to suspend their disbelief without actually brainwashing them?
I can't really explain it because I'm lame.
The whole drug-politician thing pisses me off. How many politicians had a drink when they were younger? And alcohol has been linked with depression and anger issues and blah blah blah. However you stand on drugs, to deny that alcohol/tobacco are also drugs is just WRONG. If they're smoking it NOW, and every day, it's probably an issue. But how much more of an issue than who they are getting their money from?
Morality is so dependent on situation too. If a starving man steals a loaf of bread that is different from a well-fed man stealing a load of bread is different again from a competing baker stealing a loaf of bread to research the secret recipe (or whatever).
I think you have to be honest about your own principles more than anything, and your principles should be well-thought out ones you can substantiate, not gleaned from The Sun.
I had an arguement with Sarah G about The Sun. :( She said it was "The People's Newspaper", and she asked me if The Guardian had given out water to flood victims. I was like "pictures of naked women aren't news", and she said "that's only page three!". Two minutes later she was talking about how she loved reading the Sports Pages and playing a game where they tried to find a page that DIDN'T have topless pictures on it.
There's no freaking consitency at all, talking to her, and it's SO frsutrating.
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Date: 2007-07-30 01:41 pm (UTC)I can't really explain it because I'm lame.
The whole drug-politician thing pisses me off. How many politicians had a drink when they were younger? And alcohol has been linked with depression and anger issues and blah blah blah. However you stand on drugs, to deny that alcohol/tobacco are also drugs is just WRONG. If they're smoking it NOW, and every day, it's probably an issue. But how much more of an issue than who they are getting their money from?
Morality is so dependent on situation too. If a starving man steals a loaf of bread that is different from a well-fed man stealing a load of bread is different again from a competing baker stealing a loaf of bread to research the secret recipe (or whatever).
I think you have to be honest about your own principles more than anything, and your principles should be well-thought out ones you can substantiate, not gleaned from The Sun.
I had an arguement with Sarah G about The Sun. :( She said it was "The People's Newspaper", and she asked me if The Guardian had given out water to flood victims. I was like "pictures of naked women aren't news", and she said "that's only page three!". Two minutes later she was talking about how she loved reading the Sports Pages and playing a game where they tried to find a page that DIDN'T have topless pictures on it.
There's no freaking consitency at all, talking to her, and it's SO frsutrating.