I donno Smokey. If you agree with Shaw that it is wrong to indoctrinate kids then you probably shouldn't be helping spread the lie.

Saying nice things to little old ladies is scarcely a matter of propagating "lies." Potential outcomes are what we should regard as being at the heart of the matter, not the beaming smiles that will be the very most one could expect to come out of these trivial, friendly exchanges. Your average little old lady (I'm getting fed up with myself for using that unhelpful expression) is exceptionally unlikely to be further indoctrinated by such pleasantries, let's face it. But children in schools and religious households are an entirely different matter. They are subjected to a constant barrage over many years of myths-as-truth, and, well, I won't go on about it all over again... Suffice to say there there is a difference, though black-and-white Jacko might not discern it even if it reared up and bit him on the cock.