While this article takes a light-hearted approach to "Santa the public health menace," some of the jokes ring true. The ethical issue that the journalist-turn-comedian gets at is whether parents should be limiting their children's exposure to unhealthy role models? Perhaps if there were some other jolly, old fat man who thought he was magical the parents wouldn't be as pleased. So, does that mean that in the sake of tradition, it is ethically defensible to encourage children's admiration of unhealthy behaviors?
(Submitted by Tara Vaughn)
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