There is a line in a hit song from the 70's that goes like this, "It can't be wrong when it feels so right." I came across this line yesterday and thought, things have only gone downhill in the intervening decades. Have you noticed? People are very invested in their feelings and some of them have this bizarre idea that if they feel a certain way, this somehow has the validity of objective truth.
They feel the reverse too, that "it can't be right if it feels so wrong." Is that true? Are our feelings the arbiter of morality, of right and wrong, of what G-d wants of us? Are so so intuitive that are gut feelings are always correct? Are we such holy people that our every thought and emotion is in sync with the will of G-d? Not me ... I need an objective way of knowing whether something is right or wrong for the Yetzer Hara is great at convincing us that good things don't feel right.
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