What's wrong with a president "trusting his gut" when making decisions?

Question

http://www.alternet.org/story/39530/

Answer 1

Because a person's "gut" is a notoriously unreliable judge of what is the best thing to do.

Deluded people's guts lead them to do the wrong thing; stupid people's guts lead them to do the dumb thing; brutal people's guts lead them to commit brutality.

A president should learn about the situation he is deciding on, get a variety of ideas about what to do from people who are knowledgeable, wise, and have the best interests of the people affected at heart. Basing policy on untruths is suicide.

In Bush's case, his "gut" tells him that everyone who disagrees with anything he wants to do is a traitor who hates America, making a whopping 87% of Americans traitors who hate America, as most Americans disagree with his stand on every issue.

His gut is wrong.

Trusting his gut has lead to hundreds of thousands of people being murdered, thousands or tens of thousands raped and tortured, gazillions of tons of sludge dumped into our air, implementation of a medicare system that enriches health plans at the expense and well being of the people it's supposed to serve, a program that tries to turn the educational system into one in which kids spend 13 years of their lives learning to become proficient at only one task: passing machine-gradable tests -- well, you get the idea.

Answer 2

Most of the time, your gut goes agains the facts. Our president might be trusting his gut because he knows that by making a decision, he'd be in deep crap with a campaign donator, a foreign country, or another organisation. Nope, it's best to go with the facts. Then, if something goes wrong, the president has a list of logical reasons (evidences) to explain his course of action...and can save his ***.

Answer 3

Nothing is wrong with it, as long as his "gut reactions" are truly his (in a difficult situation that truly has no obvious "best solution") and not those of other policy makers who are also telling him to use common phrases such as "trusting your gut" to appeal to common folk.

Never trust any government or leader without question! This day in age, every political/economic/military decision is carefully thought out and carefully planned. And so are the words used to communicate those decisions to the general public.

Answer 4

that's carefully subjective so each and every answer would be different. i'm blind so i believe I supply a special attitude to the equation. Doing the superb ingredient for me in contact using information and serious thinking to weigh the options in the previous me. in case you often do what's stable, you under no circumstances do what's misguided is what some say. information is the flexibility to renowned distinction. distinction between 2 human beings, an threat, distinction in character, a decision. i believe information is the grasp key to be certain what's stable or incorrect. flow in direction of people who have a good time you instead of tolerate you.

Answer 5

Why trust your gut when the stakes can be too high? Surround yourself with competent advisors. And most importantly: Consult others that came before you that have experience. Nuff said.

Answer 6

Generally, guts are full of what comes out of the back end.

Answer 7

Nothing. It's better than trusting his anatomy that's 6 inches lower.

Answer 8

Because your gut contains your intestines, stomach, liver, etc.

Better off using the brain. Of course he has no brain

Answer 9

Too much booze has been poured down that gut.

Answer 10

It's a proven fact, some foods cause bad dreams.