The claim that misery serves the enemy is not a modern gloss; it follows from the structure. If the material world is a good creation under attack, and if human beings are enlisted combatants, then anything that weakens a person weakens the side. This yields a set of positions unusual among world religions taken together: no food-fasting, no celibacy, no monasticism, no ascetic ideal, no merit in poverty, an obligation to marry and reproduce, an obligation to work productively, and six mandatory communal feasts a year. Grief at a death is expected and is also regulated, with excessive or prolonged mourning discouraged on the grounds that it distresses the departed soul and pleases Angra Mainyu. The tradition's own summary of the good life is domestic and unmystical — a house with fire in it, a spouse, children, cattle and crops. It is one of the few religious systems in which enjoying yourself competently is presented as a contribution to the defeat of evil.