Therapy

The participant answer Jiang approves says lived experience such as falling in love or becoming a parent is the better path for understanding resentment toward one's parents.

Jiang argues that therapy feeds the beast by trapping a person deeper in the forest, whereas passing through hell lets one see what anger, fear, and hatred do and thereby reduce their hold.

A student objects that the metaphor is strange and overly absolute, suggesting therapy as an alternative to Jiang's binary between punishment and permissiveness.

A student argues that Jiang's metaphor is too absolute because responsible parenting could include education or therapy rather than only punishment or permissiveness.

The therapy-defending student appeals to modern clinical effectiveness, saying therapy is proven to work across serious conditions including sociopathy.

Jiang refuses to let the discussion become a generic defense of therapy and instead asks what outsourcing the response to a therapist or police would mean inside the emotional logic of the thought experiment.

Students infer that therapeutic intervention would be uncomfortable for Eve, whether because the therapist sides against the parent or because the session becomes an invasive interrogation.

The therapy-defending student says that responsible parents should hand Eve to someone more licensed and qualified because they themselves are not psychological experts.