To rely on instinct

I spoke up to G__ last night.

The scene to remember is Star Trek TNG when Deanna loses her empathic abilities [sc., “The Loss”] and Riker tells her off, that she always acted so aristocratic because she was always in control over other people, and now that she’s on equal footing she doesn’t even want to try. It was a risk for him to speak up like that—and like he said, when you rely on human instinct and hunches sometimes you’re wrong, and sometimes you have to risk losing the person you care about.