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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Mulan] I fully accept the blame and shame for my dishonorable actions. But why is my cow now involved? An Xiang did nothing wrong.
gpt
Honor (and dishonor) is shared by the family as a whole. If a father acts dishonorably, he is a dishonorable person, and clearly gave birth to dishonorable children. If a child acts dishonorably, they were raised dishonorably, and their parents are obviously dishonorable, too.

Your actions are so dishonorable that they have spread beyond family relations and to property. Your house, your ancestral weapons, and even your livestock are clearly dishonorable, simply by being related to you. An honorable cow would never give milk to someone so dishonorable, would she?