DrW wrote:Seems as though you were able to more than adequately compensate for your parents' choice of cultural resources in the home.
See, this sort of thing rubs me the wrong way. Compensate?
A general expectation has arisen that we "owe" our children some sort of debt. So many people don't want to have children now because they don't want to pay the debt. They don't want to be responsible for bring children into a world they cannot control. This expectation makes null and void the love parents might actually have for their children. Like, regardless of how much a parent might love and try to give their children everything they can, there is a group of people ready to judge them as inadequate.
Taking religion out it, leaving only science and facts, truth happens. Every human beings does the best they can, because the science demands it. If a person is aggressive, there is a trail of observable and predictable science that explains why. If a parent is a bad parent, there is a scientific reason why, whether it is based on hormones, bad sun light, poverty, radical extremist teachings, or whatever, it couldn't have been any other way. Everything that happened followed the laws of the universe.
Gratitude is the only righteous perspective. Not to say we don't have other perspective, but nobody owes us anything.