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What does it mean?
Parents who kill or eat meat are blamed for making their children violent.
In plain terms
If you kill animals, you teach your children to be killers.
What can you take from it?
Parents shape children through their own violent actions.

Where it applies

  • parental behavior
  • violence cycle

Putting it to work

  • reflect on habits
  • teach nonviolence

Questions to consider

  • How do actions shape children?
  • What makes hypocrisy?

Another view

Blaming parents for children's actions ignores individual choice.

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