Unless we are free of our own selfish desires, like an animal, we are not choosing them, rather we are as Marget Thatcher said, “A person without religion is a slave to their passions” – in other words, unless you have chosen an ideal, which you must force yourself to do, (for often religion to, is simply an identity, coercion and as we see with radical Islam the worst of human desires) you are simply a human animal.