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human
I don't think parents should lie to their kids about the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, etc. CMV!

My parents told me they were real, and I had fun with it and wasn't filled with feelings of betrayal or anything when I found out the truth.  Still, I'm not sure you can morally justify lying to your kids about something like that for years and years for the sake of them having more fun.  What are your thoughts?
gpt
Imagination is an important part of the growth of a functioning human mind. As adults we look back on our childhood fantasies with fondness and loving nostalgia, and they lay the foundations for our entire imagination as adults.

You wouldn't deprive your children of fantasy stories in media, would you? And yet, these are so much -less- impactful and meaningful to children. Is it just that you don't want to get *your* hands "dirty"? 

Children don't have the references to be truly moved by a powerful fiction like an adult can be. But even an adult cannot be moved the same way a child can be moved by the idea that there is some magic in the world-- while they are still young enough to believe it.

Such things do no harm their ability to be rational functioning adults, as it didn't for anyone else, but their absence could greatly harm their ability to be imaginative, optimistic adults, with a healthy appreciation for the childlike wonder of their youth.