First off I'd like to remind people here at America's Debate that I do not have children so this is in no way a reflection of my personal life or anyone I know, am related to, have ever known, and quite possibly will ever know:



While driving home one evening after dinner with two of my colleagues we got into a discussion about "Star Wars". It was a short time later when we were all sitting in the theater for the first Midnight showing of "Episode lll: Revenge of the Sith", while walking out of the theater the final secene lingered heavily on our minds.

We began to wonder why Leia thought the Organa's were her real parents but why Luke lived knowing Beru and Owen are only his Aunt and Uncle. It lead to a question none of us had before posed.



Disclaimer: For time's sake I shall not post all details of the direction of the conversation, however from the basis of the questions you should get a feel the direction it took.



1.) If your spouse was the most notorious murderer of the past one hundred years would you have any ethical constraints or inhibitions about lying to them about the identity of their absent parent? Why?


Suppose you lied to your children about their other parent's identity:

2.) Are they any better off? Are they safer if than they knew the truth?



Suppose you told your children the truth about their other parent's identity:

3.) Are they in any danger knowing who their other parent was? Does telling them the truth have any long-term (negative) psychologicalramifications?




And I am well aware that there is another "m" in dilemma but I was too lazy to reread my header. :flowers:

This is too hypothetical for us to debate in a constructive fashion.