
Monkey Man
Super Moderator
Yeah, but as I suggested, the emphasis of the sentence is on how one would feel; it's actually not about one's daughter.To me, he does know I have daughters though. He knew me before I had them and he knew me when I had them.
Same goes for all the substitutions I listed previously. When someone says for example, "Would you talk like / say that to your mom?", he knows you have a mom 'cause everyone does; that's not the point 'though, nor is it ever meant as any sort of negative critique of a relative.
I don't know how to make it any clearer. It's merely a tool for appealing to common sense that's generic in nature.