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And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion,
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it is because they only know their side of the question."
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So here, you have an attempt to distinguish higher from lower pleasures.
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So going to an art museum or being a couch potato
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and swilling beer, watching television at home.
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Sometimes, Mill agrees, we might succumb to the temptation
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to do the latter, to be couch potatoes.
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But even when we do that out of indolence and sloth,
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we know that
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the pleasure we get gazing at Rembrandts in the museum
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is actually higher because we've experienced both,
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and it is a higher pleasure gazing at Rembrandts