Re: Government recommends lying to children/value of honesty

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What really bothers me about this entire thread is that I am very sure that some

of the folks that are commenting have not taken the time to watch the campaign

advertisements. It amazes me that a professional can make post after post about

something that they have not seen. This is prejudice.

I do not confuse pretending with lying and agree they are very different.

I was and never will castigate anyone for valuing honesty. Please reread my

comments. I clearly stated that when I watched the ad, I interpreted the scene

as the mom pretending she did not know where her purse was and her daughter was

running around. I interpreted it as hide and seek rather than the mom lying.

How that got to your diatribe is very unclear to me.

And I asked - if we, on this list, do have American values - can't we have the

right to have different interpretations? Just because one person says LYING and

WRONG does that mean everyone has to see it this way?

In my research - I have followed a number of ad campaigns aimed to get kids

active. Have you seen the ones from Australia?

Lets face it. If anyone really had the answer of how to get kids (and adults)

to eat healthy and exercise - we would probably have a house right next to Bill

Gates and would certainly not be on this list serve

So there are different tries and different approaches. None will work for

everyone. We don't have to like all of the approaches

If I still believed in Santa - I would just ask

1. Please watch the video yourself and draw your own conclusions

2. Realize that not everyone will see this as the government recommending lying

to children.

3. Even if you do not like the approach of the video - it is not making a

widespread recommendation to for lying to children

4. Respect the views of others. Civilized people can agree to disagree

5. Reread my posts - again - I started this by saying I interpreted the ad as

pretending not lying - I never said that lying was good or that we should use it

as a technique with children.

Debra

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> I'm not sure why you want to confuse pretending with lying. Two completely

different things. If you want to hide a purse and tell someone to go find it for

exercise, then no need to lie about it. Everyone knows there is pretense going

on. That's fun. If someone doesn't want to see the difference in lying and

pretending, well maybe there are some real values missing there. To answer your

question: Honesty is the value lost in lying. Seems so simple. The difference in

lying and pretending seems so clear. I can't believe we're being castigated for

valuing honesty. Truthfulness and avoiding lying is POSITIVE, not negative.

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