Peterdjones comments on Most-Moral-Minority Morality - Less Wrong
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Imagine that there is some behavior called "snarf," which 10% of the population thinks is morally acceptable but 90% thinks is abhorrent. The desire of the 10% to perform snarf is going to be outweighed by the desire of the 90% to ban snarf. Thus, society will not move in the direction of legalizing snarf. If that's still too abstract, substitute "gay marriage" for "snarf."
Similarly, meat eaters would probably not agree that vegetarians hold the high ground.
I don't think that a good analogy. i've never heard of a carnivore who thought meat eating was morally better. Their argument is that meat eating is not so much worse that it becomes an ethical no-no, rather than a ethically neutral lifestyle choice. (Morally level ground).
People can even carry on doing something they think is morally wrong on the excuse of akrasia.
And gay marriage is becoming slowly accepted.
I suspect that you either haven't looked very hard or very long.
If you have, perhaps you can give me a pointer.
Recently stumbled into this. It's probably incomplete, but it's something.
Meat eating is morally better because meat dishes are objectively more aesthetically and gastronomically pleasing, and pleasure is a moral good.
Meat eating is morally better because meat dishes are objectively more aesthetically and gastronomically pleasing, and pleasure is a moral good.
Meat eating is morally better because meat dishes are objectively more aesthetically and gastronomically pleasing, and pleasure is a moral good.
Meat eating is morally better because meat dishes are objectively more aesthetically and gastronomically pleasing, and pleasure is a moral good.