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What To Tell Our Kids When Bad People Prosper
We parents have stories we like to tell our children:
Cheaters never prosper.Honesty is the best policy.Crime doesn’t pay.Good prevails.Love wins.
Sometimes we speak these words as steady declaration of what we believe to be true. Other times they are spoken as the hopeful aspirations of what we wish were true but are no longer certain of. Still other times, they feel like willful fictions we share because the truth feels too complicated and unpleasant.Some days we fully embrace these stories and other days we're trying to convince both our children and ourselves in real-time.
We talk to them…
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