Believe truth, avoid error! Isn't that always our goal? Sometimes, difficult thought it may be, we must invest intellectual risk in order to arrive at correct knowledge. There is no knowledge we should ever fearfully regard as off limits and we are free to explore. We should not lament the sometimes grueling process that learning entails, nor be taken aback if we discover that what we once held as truth turns out to be lies. We would not, for example, regard as worthy a general who told his soldiers it's better to avoid battle lest you incur a wound. In our discomforting world, there are times, despite all our caution, where injury is unavoidable. We should not, therefore, exude unreasonable nervousness about this.


The most useful intellectual investigator is always one whose eager curiosity is seldom easily satisfied. But can pure intellect alone, without aid from “the heart” (a term used to describe our soul), ever decide how to sift through the world of moral relativism? I think not. The two must work in unison if they are to reach any accord. If in your heart you refuse a world of adherence to moral reality, you will find your intellect never attempting to enforce what seems to it only an indifferent and odd biological phenomena. But the heart wants what the heart wants, and it can get quite feisty if it doesn't get its way.


Moral reality (or morality) simply suggests some things as better than others, best thought of as an instruction book for a complicated machine. We're well advised to follow instruction books usually... unless you prefer risking driving a Ferrari blindfolded down the wrong side of a highway to be good life advice. You are free to accept your own form of risk.