Poll: Most would not stop eating meat if asked to by their loved one

[WillowTree]

5. "Willing" and "able" are two entirely different things.

The smoking and drinking are poor examples because those things are addictions, so what we're willing to do for someone else and what we can actually do for someone else are almost always different things. My father desperately wanted me to quit smoking and I wanted so much to please him and put his heart at ease over it. If wanting to do it for him had been enough, it would have happened and G-d knows I tried.......repeatedly. But things like quitting smoking or drinking for those who have a problem with it is demonstrably not something that a person can do for someone else. Those are things that one has to do because we want them enough for ourselves to be successful.

Interestingly, the things that are enumerated as things that people would not be willing to do to please someone else are mostly things that are much more of a choice.