The act of eating is a service.

[Monica]

My response to this has always been to use the same perspective paradigm to apply to plants.

If I'm understanding you correctly, then we are essentially doing the same thing, but with different objectives:

You are attempting to draw a parallel between plants and animals.

I am attempting to draw a parallel between animals and humans.

My attempt is to relieve what may cause guilt by showing how we can make ourselves believe anything.

That is a valid perspective.

I have a different, but equally valid, perspective:

My attempt is to show that guilt can have a purpose, and there might be both similarities and genuine differences, between animals and humans, as well as between animals and plants.

That is how guilt is a tool. This is a given. But what is coming from the higher self is not black and white, not obvious to anyone but the beautiful self.

I agree with this, with the minor modification that guilt could be used as a tool, but that doesn't negate its potential value to the person feeling it.

Our disagreement is more about the directive to balancing our society. Would you state if you disagree with my primary directive?

I would need a more complete definition of your primary directive, please, in order to say whether I agree or disagree with it.