People do manage to feel quite good about themselves by denying themselves certain things, and thereby convince themselves that by practising this denial they are enhancing their own spirituality.

For example, some people do not eat meat because they feel that it is not right to kill animals in order o eat. Such people then become vegetarians, but in doing so they choose to ignore the fact that vegetables too are life-forms,and that even the water we drink and the air we breathe are filled with living micro-organisms.

Therefore the argument that we should not kill animals to eat them makes little sense.

Theun Mares -Cry of the Eagle