 Amish groups use similar criteria to make decisions about which modern technologies to use and which to avoid.In the third essay ("") from his book "On the Genealogy of Morals", Friedrich Nietzsche discusses what he terms the "ascetic ideal" and its role in the formulation of morality along with the history of the will.In the essay, Nietzsche describes how such a paradoxical action as asceticism might serve the interests of life