No worries, as you've proven time-and-time again that your opinions are not based on facts or evidence, and you deny or disgard all facts.
Hey, if the WTBTS can get away with it, why not you, too? Spewing dogma devoid of truth for others to consume is great work if you can get it!
Giordano said:
What the Starlock DVD did was show that there is no longer room for a parent to make their own decision concerning their child. Now there is an OFFICAL WT position to take. This was a tutorial on how to guilt trip a five year old(?) into obedience over a child's silly toy.
While the video depicted a particular decision, that doesn't constitute a "policy shift".
Now granted, it didn't exactly make the case for loosening the policy, or as endorsing the practice (!), but it didn't remove the decision from BEING a conscience matter. It doesn't say that JWs are NOT to play with magical toys, under ANY circumstances.
Examine the dialogue of the video carefully, and you can identify the moment when Mom makes the decision as to how to handle the issue: it's right after she they're both sitting at the table for Caleb to eat lunch, and she asks Caleb a question (and this is from memory, so it's not exact words):
Mom: "Does Sparlock use magic?"
Caleb responds (without so much as hesitating to set his milk down): "Uh-huh (gulp-gulp)".
That's when Mom confirmed that Caleb doesn't actually see Sparlock as a toy for the imagination, but that he seemingly believes Sparlock IS magical. That was Caleb's downfall (as 4 y.o. kids don't anticipate how a simple answer can have consequences on their toys: poor Caleb hasn't learned that yet, LOL!)
Like I said above, rather than correcting his misbelief (which any non-JW parent might do), his Mom uses it as an opportunity to "reason" (placed in quotes for a good reason), and she decides to get Caleb throw the Sparlock out with the bathwater.
However, you cannot claim her right to exercise control over him, as a conscience matter.
Like the ASL video, the Sparlock video is a Rohrsach test, where people will see what elements they CHOOSE to see, and let logic and rational thinking be damned.
My point is that the premise hasn't been supported with backing evidence, eg if you can find a recent publication that actually STATES that magical toys are now forbidden (not conscience matters), then the premise fails.