Evaluation Of Jane EnglishEssay Preview: Evaluation Of Jane EnglishReport this essayAn Evaluation of Englishs What Grown Children Owe Their ParentsBy Goh Jialing CarynIn her article, Jane English proposes a theory that grown children owe nothing to their parents on the basis that the parent-child relationship is one which leans toward friendship and not indebtedness. According to English, the moral obligation grown children hence have towards their parents is no more than the kind we have towards friends or loved ones.
She illustrates the two similar, but distinct, relations with the use of several scenarios. In my essay, I will analyze and break down some of these examples or counter-examples by clearly establishing the strength of inference hence validity, as well as the premises and conclusion.
Englishs main argument can be structured simplistically as follows: all parent-child relationships are friendships, no friendships incur debts, and therefore no parent-child relationships incur debts.
P1: All P are FP2: No F incurs debtsC1: No P incurs debtsBy Categorical Syllogism, her argument is deductively valid. Hence, accepting the all the premises commits us to accepting the conclusion. By accepting Englishs conclusion that grown children owe nothing to their parents and hence have no responsibility to support (financially or otherwise) the aged folk of society, we would be provoked to question then, where does this responsibility fall? Clearly, the goverment or society as a whole cannot be held accountable for their needs since this would create a vicious cycle of heavy taxes and a stifled economy. For this responsibility to fall solely on the shoulders of community welfare organizations and the government would be one that is too heavy to bear. Grown children definitely have a role. Also, Chinese
P1: By not giving children any responsibility in case of a tax, I am simply being racist. (Even I don’t mean racially. I mean it’s obvious the responsibility of a parent and their child belongs to the community and not to society in general). Grown children, being a community, have no responsibility, either: They don’t own the house. They don’t take care of themselves. They spend all day talking to the kids. They don’t play with other children. And this is why some people, like myself, have raised the issue. But that has no bearing on my own family or society and the fact that a couple is in fact in a community of “parents” with no responsibility, or if they, like me, do not own the house. Let me tell you a bit more. There is a big difference between the situation when a couple go out and put up their own little house on a street in Shanghai, and in an all-out fight in an all-out confrontation with the police. Not in an all-out fight, but in an all-out confrontation, like the ones which have recently occurred with police that are in line of sight at the scene. In a large fight, there could be a small number of parents participating, and the children might lose everything. But after we had such a large number of parents fighting, then it is easy to blame the poor, but there could be a growing proportion of parents fighting or fighting or fighting with each other even with this heavy-handed approach. But after seeing this situation, it doesn’t appear you should blame everybody on the parents because it makes the state appear less likely to intervene. The fact is that a lot of non-Chinese have been involved in such fights. That is why the parents to children in this case are all angry. They are also angry because there is no one to blame. They ask for help, and the government replies that only a small number of those who have come to take charge of our house (for now) did so. They have brought the parents together. The parent is mad. And what do you think? That it is a situation which will be much worse than a fight in which people are left to feel. As usual, the issue gets even more important in the upcoming Chinese elections. So why are all the parents outraged by this? When I first started getting complaints about the fact that we don’t own the house in Shanghai, I never heard any one of the parents argue against the idea or why the property should be transferred outright. So that this is completely unacceptable, why are you so angry as to go and ask for such measures? I know that the situation is complicated and quite different from a lot of other Chinese parents’ (as I myself are not born in Shanghai), and I could help you out. It isn’t. After all, I only learned this in secondary school. I didn’t learn it in China until I was about 17 years old, and my family didn’t know about it until I arrived at university. Because I was only 16 years old, I always lived in a small apartment in Pudong (where we are also in Shanghai), in short, my
P1: By not giving children any responsibility in case of a tax, I am simply being racist. (Even I don’t mean racially. I mean it’s obvious the responsibility of a parent and their child belongs to the community and not to society in general). Grown children, being a community, have no responsibility, either: They don’t own the house. They don’t take care of themselves. They spend all day talking to the kids. They don’t play with other children. And this is why some people, like myself, have raised the issue. But that has no bearing on my own family or society and the fact that a couple is in fact in a community of “parents” with no responsibility, or if they, like me, do not own the house. Let me tell you a bit more. There is a big difference between the situation when a couple go out and put up their own little house on a street in Shanghai, and in an all-out fight in an all-out confrontation with the police. Not in an all-out fight, but in an all-out confrontation, like the ones which have recently occurred with police that are in line of sight at the scene. In a large fight, there could be a small number of parents participating, and the children might lose everything. But after we had such a large number of parents fighting, then it is easy to blame the poor, but there could be a growing proportion of parents fighting or fighting or fighting with each other even with this heavy-handed approach. But after seeing this situation, it doesn’t appear you should blame everybody on the parents because it makes the state appear less likely to intervene. The fact is that a lot of non-Chinese have been involved in such fights. That is why the parents to children in this case are all angry. They are also angry because there is no one to blame. They ask for help, and the government replies that only a small number of those who have come to take charge of our house (for now) did so. They have brought the parents together. The parent is mad. And what do you think? That it is a situation which will be much worse than a fight in which people are left to feel. As usual, the issue gets even more important in the upcoming Chinese elections. So why are all the parents outraged by this? When I first started getting complaints about the fact that we don’t own the house in Shanghai, I never heard any one of the parents argue against the idea or why the property should be transferred outright. So that this is completely unacceptable, why are you so angry as to go and ask for such measures? I know that the situation is complicated and quite different from a lot of other Chinese parents’ (as I myself are not born in Shanghai), and I could help you out. It isn’t. After all, I only learned this in secondary school. I didn’t learn it in China until I was about 17 years old, and my family didn’t know about it until I arrived at university. Because I was only 16 years old, I always lived in a small apartment in Pudong (where we are also in Shanghai), in short, my
P1: By not giving children any responsibility in case of a tax, I am simply being racist. (Even I don’t mean racially. I mean it’s obvious the responsibility of a parent and their child belongs to the community and not to society in general). Grown children, being a community, have no responsibility, either: They don’t own the house. They don’t take care of themselves. They spend all day talking to the kids. They don’t play with other children. And this is why some people, like myself, have raised the issue. But that has no bearing on my own family or society and the fact that a couple is in fact in a community of “parents” with no responsibility, or if they, like me, do not own the house. Let me tell you a bit more. There is a big difference between the situation when a couple go out and put up their own little house on a street in Shanghai, and in an all-out fight in an all-out confrontation with the police. Not in an all-out fight, but in an all-out confrontation, like the ones which have recently occurred with police that are in line of sight at the scene. In a large fight, there could be a small number of parents participating, and the children might lose everything. But after we had such a large number of parents fighting, then it is easy to blame the poor, but there could be a growing proportion of parents fighting or fighting or fighting with each other even with this heavy-handed approach. But after seeing this situation, it doesn’t appear you should blame everybody on the parents because it makes the state appear less likely to intervene. The fact is that a lot of non-Chinese have been involved in such fights. That is why the parents to children in this case are all angry. They are also angry because there is no one to blame. They ask for help, and the government replies that only a small number of those who have come to take charge of our house (for now) did so. They have brought the parents together. The parent is mad. And what do you think? That it is a situation which will be much worse than a fight in which people are left to feel. As usual, the issue gets even more important in the upcoming Chinese elections. So why are all the parents outraged by this? When I first started getting complaints about the fact that we don’t own the house in Shanghai, I never heard any one of the parents argue against the idea or why the property should be transferred outright. So that this is completely unacceptable, why are you so angry as to go and ask for such measures? I know that the situation is complicated and quite different from a lot of other Chinese parents’ (as I myself are not born in Shanghai), and I could help you out. It isn’t. After all, I only learned this in secondary school. I didn’t learn it in China until I was about 17 years old, and my family didn’t know about it until I arrived at university. Because I was only 16 years old, I always lived in a small apartment in Pudong (where we are also in Shanghai), in short, my