Sugar tastes great. If you don’t agree, I envy you. You have it easy. Your taste buds determined that you are better than sugar and you are a better person for it. My taste buds determined that I should be a slave to a horrible and destructive chemical and I hate them for it.
My mind and body tell me sugar is fantastic, scientific research suggests otherwise. Subjective intuition, our “gut feeling”, is often wrong. No matter how strong the feeling of pleasure I get from eating sugar is, the fact is eating a lot of it is bad for both my mental and physical health. My gut feeling that I should eat a lot of sugar is wrong.
Sure, maybe a little sugar is beneficial, so the truth is in the middle. My feeling that sugar is amazing has some truth to it, but not all the truth, it informs somewhat but not completely. Sugar is an important source of energy, it just shouldn’t be consumed in huge quantities.
Do you see a parallel yet? Our subjective intuition, our “gut feeling”, about many things in life isn’t enough to completely inform us. Our feelings can be wrong, or misguided, and if we are to be happy healthy people we need to check our feelings against something closer to reality. That something closer to be reality can be anything that incorporates multiple perspectives, be it peer-reviewed research or conversations with people wiser than you.
Your gut feeling is the start of discovery, not the end.
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