The Importance of Weightiness in Moral Decisions

"I didn't come here to make you feel guilty, or even to change your minds about whether to eat meat. But it does strike me that eating meat is more like the giraffe case than it is like the cat case," he says. "So I think that the principle that it's only weighty interest that would justify inflicting severe harm on animals leads to the conclusion that most of us should be reducing the amount of meat and animal products we consume." 'If weightiness only pertains to matters of life and death, I just I worry that if that's really what counts in our decisions'