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jovial10 months, 2 weeks ago

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Hoodwinking children. Hmmm.. Good idea or not? I think bad idea. What if a child speaks to this program thinking that it's real and then finds out the father is already dead or wounded?

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  Tangent00110 months, 2 weeks ago
  
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  They will know. If not now then eventually, and the parents will pay.
  
  War has consequences that can't be 'made up' with virtual simulacrums. It seems the DOD simply wants to delay the impact. Think about it, what will happen to the child who eventually discovers their 'dad' or 'mom' was a program engineered by the government?
  
  Do I trust the DOD not to inject pro-military messages? Do you?
  
  I thought this was a hoax, but you can follow the links to an actual program. The scary part is the lack of input from the deployed parent. There is NO discussion of it.
  
  Kill it.
  
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  Ciera-Marie10 months, 2 weeks ago
  
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  If that happens then I hope the DOD will pay for long term counseling.
  
  This is just wrong on so many levels.
  
  For the DOD to even be thinking about doing this? Can you imagine what this has done to troop morale?
  
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    BBcamaro10 months, 2 weeks ago
    
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    I just retired a month ago and never heard anything about this, but if you look at the link. It shows an open date of 11/122008 and a close date 1/14/2009, that tells me it was never really given any serious looks.
    
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      jovial10 months, 2 weeks ago
      
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      Or that someone already won the contract.
      
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  Candida10 months, 2 weeks ago
  
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  I agree that this is a bad idea, and not just because a lot of things can go wrong. It's completely unethical. Even small children deserve to know the truth. How can we expect them to trust adults if we lie to them all the time?
  
  Now if the DoD could somehow make it possible for them to actually talk to their parents once in a while, that would be a completely different matter.
  
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    hyperbola10 months, 2 weeks ago
    
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    Actually I wonder if the idea of "children" isn't an attempt to cover up more sinister things. Really think the Pentagon's first priority in creating "simalcrums" is to help children?
    
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