Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

How to put this... I often get something similar from Jews who don't want to observe the obligations (Mitzvot "doing a mitzvah doesn't mean "good deed" or "nice thing" even though it's sometimes used that way colloquially. The word comes from the root TzVH which means "command") of Judaism, but just to pick and choose the things they like (oh, we light candles on shabbat, but the thing about not using money... well, it's just not realistic this day and age?" "Really? Then how come so many people *do* manage it?") Whether it's secular-ish Jews who don't want to refrain from certain kinds of work on Saturday, or feel that depriving themselves of shrimp cocktail or a cheeseburger will somehow ruin their lives, or whether it's "religious" Jews who think it's fine to eat meat from slaughterhouses where the worker conditions aren't as described as we're obliged to treat workers (we have an entire tractate of a major canonical work called the Talmud that is devoted to employer employee relations), it totally grinds me: as she says, it's not a religion, it's a hobby.
As the Mishnah says, "You are not required to finish the task, but neither have you leave to abstain from beginning it."