If you are in a line of work that you could not in good conscience explain to a child, to protect their so-called innocence, then there is probably nothing justifiable about what you do for a living. This is to say that if you can't tell a child the truth about what you're doing out of fear that it would poison their perspective, then what business do you have in that line of work? If you have conscience enough to be concerned with the child's moral trajectory, then what is that conscience doing by showing up everyday to perversely violate its own?
If you work to make a check and do not concern yourself with the ramifications of what you are doing, then you ought not to be so concerned about the child finding out about them. You can not serve two masters--one to the projection of moral justification (for the children's sake), and one to soul-depraved ambiguity (for yours). You either do what you do and accept and project it truthfully, even to the young ones, or you are living a lie.
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