  Photo  Jim Robertson  Photo Jim Robertson  by Jack Carone
While this is surely the case for some people, for others,
including me, it has happened quickly and painlessly when the
time was right. To set the stage for interested seekers to
expect hardship invites failure or a refusal to even try.  For
someone who still really wants to eat animals and their
secretions, or still wants to wear a fur coat or a silk shirt,
but resists for health or moral reasons understood but not felt,
it is certainly hard to do. They have to exert Willpower to
resist things they still desire, and this almost inevitably
leads to a failure to maintain the “sacrifice”. Someone who
gives up meat for “health reasons” very often reverts,
occasionally or permanently.  But for someone who has
internalized the horror and immorality of subjecting other
feeling beings to abuse and slaughter, and who simply refuses
to, simply cannot—just won’t— be a part of this any longer,
there is no feeling of deprivation, and no enticement which can
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