Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Truth Message-ID: <166@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 11:10:13 EST Article-I.D.: unc.166 Posted: Wed Mar 6 11:10:13 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 10:44:42 EST References:Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 26 Summary: > >From <285@packard.UUCP>: > > "We are contemplating a trip to San Francisco, and would like > some inout from parents experienced in this area ... Is it wise > (as has been recommended by others) to lie about the childs age > in order to pay no fare for him?" > >From <812@decwrl.UUCP>: > > "How to you teach respect for the truth? For one thing, by > being truthful ..." > In article andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) writes: > I suggest that there are advantages to telling the truth about the San > Francisco-bound child's age beyond the question of whether the kid > needs a seat to themself. > We don't want to teach our kids to be fanatics about telling the truth. After all, sometimes lying is very convenient. The trick is teaching the child to tell the truth to us, the parents, not that the child should necessarily tell the truth to everybody else all the time. Frank Silbermann University of North Carolina