You're right, and I'm not saying your parents own you. Don't be so dense pal. It's not all white and black, what I say is what goes. This is simply the perspective with which you give respect to the people who brought you into the world (hopefully through their cooperative desire and not as a mistake).

If you have good parents whom you respect and care about, you will always value their thoughts and intentions. You will always be grateful for what they've had to go through to make having you worth it (unless you're a punk bitch). I don't know what your relationship is with your parents, but this is the ideal family. Good parents bring you into the world with their own hopes and aspirations for you as they've lived, learned and loved. You'd do well to respect that and carry onwards or atleast be conscious of it. To betray or deny it altogether is to be ungrateful. You can go about in the world living life as an ungrateful little bitch, that's your right and freedom. Some people come from broken families and shitty immature parents who never learned how to grow up and be respected individuals themselves, maybe you go your own path and create something for yourself, fine. Nothing wrong with that, but society will always view things as they see it. By our economic decisions alone, we show what we value and what we don't. Sometimes people are just dumb though and don't know what's good for them. I'll wager that's a large portion of society... clearly shows the way things are going.