Ziyou asked about filial piety. The Master said: 'Nowadays people think they are dutiful sons when they feed their parents. Yet they also feed their dogs and horses. Unless there is respect, where is the difference?

The difference is that statement lies on the way people are treated. If someone is treated with respect as an individual rather than an animal, then, they are dutiful to their duties as as sons.

For example, a situation, a young man has a father suffering from dementia, if he understand the health situation of the father while fulfilling is duty as a son shows that he is treating the father with respect.

Otherwise, he is only interested in feeding the man without making effort to see things from the father's health perspective. It does not make him dutiful son.

Explanation:

answer; (i-o) psychologist

i disagree that there is little difference between adult female development and adult male development. sociological studies comparing female and male pathways to adulthood, revelead that there are sustancial differences between them. particularly, female and male differ from timing of marriage, when they began to live with children and the likelihood of combining wife/husband and parent roles.