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Joseph – that is ridiculous even for you. Oh please. Anyone who is machmir on cholav yisroel is doing so because it is what is right. Whether or not the people who eat Cholav Hacompany (yes, you are 100% wrong in calling it chalav stam. if it was cholov stam nobody would be eating it) are also right is irrelevant. We don’t keep mitzvos or chumros because we get extra schar for it.
And i have found that that way of thinking is exactly the basis for the rude and self righteous attitude people are speaking about. I have run into so many people who have a need to put other people’s ways and lives down because they dont want to believe that someone could be “enjoying extra stuff” and still be right in Hashem’s eyes. They need to stomp them down to keep that image that all their sacrificing and deprivation is getting them something. How about just serving Hashem because its right? Try having some pride in the mitzvos you keep and you wont feel deprived or sacrificing. If you keep your nose and eyes out of other peoples schar and “enjoyment”, i can almost assure you that you may just get that olam habah you are looking for.