From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   One of the ten commandments is “Honor thy father and mother.” I would like   
   to clarify what that means.   
      
   There are many parents who use this commandment to do things that are wrong.   
   Specifically they use it to dictate to their children their life choices and   
   to do as had themselves. This has shown historically to be erroneous. Where   
   would we be if Isaac    
   Newton, Thomas Jefferson or Bill Gates did as their fathers had done? And how   
   much is the West ahead of places like Confucianist China, where people did   
   just that?   
      
   The correct meaning of honoring one’s parents is having respect for them and   
   treating them rightly. It does not mean perpetuating their mistakes. I had a   
   terrible relationship with my father, but now we get along well and he is   
   proud of me. That is the    
   case even though I took on projects that he thought to be useless.   
      
   Sometimes wrong beliefs are a killer. I have seen even the best people become   
   cruel and oppressive when they believed wrong things. That most beliefs are   
   wrong is an obvious fact. People around the world live under mutually   
   incompatible beliefs; which    
   means that, even if one of these groups is right, everyone else is wrong. And   
   that means: majority of the world’s population is wrong.   
      
   So if a parent has wrong beliefs, through which he interferes in one’s life,   
   honoring them does not mean sharing along with their misperceptions. It means   
   correcting them.  That being done, parents and children can have meaningful   
   interaction. There    
   can be both family and freedom. And that is the optimal solution to such   
   situations.   
      
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