Parents

[OctagonGecko729]

It's kind of like paying your bills. If you don't make the payments they come take your car. Once he is out on his own he can respect their ideals or not and he can respect them or not. But as so many have already said as long as he is living in their house there are rules to follow. Once he is on his own he can do whatever he wants as long as he conforms to society's rules and laws.

There will always be rules to follow no matter where you are it's time to learn that now.

As for comparing home to a prison, you got to be kidding.

Paying your bills is a voluntary transaction between two independant parties where there is contract law which states that property can be taken if the debt is not paid. Clearly being born into a family is not a voluntary transaction, a child has no say whatsoever where he is born or what rules he has to be subject to. I do agree that if he wants to keep the animals he has to conform to his parents rules but this is a situation of force and therefore should not invoke any kind of respect. They are incapable of using logic and empirical evidence to change the OP's mind so they are using force to attempt to bully him into obeying their ideals.