Pleasures of the palate

In Chapter 6, Taylor deals a lot with gluttony and I’m failing to see exactly where the vice in gluttony lies. She attempts to make connections between gluttony and the other vices to justify gluttony as a sin, but her attempts to compare gluttony to other self related vices like pride just don’t crossover. On page 98 Taylor says, “if the glutton is someone who pursues nothing but the pleasures of the palate then he has dissociated himself from the world.” She believes the gluttonous have done this so much so they are “arrogantly proud.” But who really lives just to satisfy “pleasures of the palate.” I don’t think a glutton in real world terms is someone who lives just for the purpose of their vice unlike someone who is guilty of sloth. Gluttonous people can indulge in food constantly as a secondary or even fifth purpose in their lives while still having it be a sin. To say someone becomes “arrogantly proud” by simply eating a lot isn’t really plausible. The only way I see the gluttonous as sinful is a matter of either excess (in a situation where excess is a problem such as a poorer family) or for health concerns. As for health, Taylor mentions “nourishment” on page 99. I believe she says that gluttonous people obviously see the nourishment of food and indulge in it because they feel they need that nourishment. Well if gluttonous people have an “interest in food” as Taylor puts it then they can’t be so blinded to the fact that what they are eating and how much they are eating is just not good for them. If anything it deals more with a confusion or deeper ignorance Taylor talked about earlier. Then again, maybe I’m just interpreting Taylor’s view of the gluttonous wrong.