Ok, good questions. Here is how I look at it (and here’s hoping that this makes some sense). Take as an example Justice and Mercy. Both are valid ultimate moral ends, but you dispense one at the expense of the other. So you are forced into a choice – it can be 100% for one and 0% for the other, or somewhere in between, but the choice is there. So what is the utopian rule for making this choice? Remember, this has to be a universal rule, valid in all times and in all places and situations, reference to which always produces only one possible answer, which by definition is the Right Answer, the Truth. How is it possible to fashion a universal rule like this, in effect a formula or algorithm that never fails? One can appeal to higher authority, the xyz religious/moral code, although even that doesn’t always offer bright line solutions. Furthermore, there are quite few different religious and moral codes around, so how do you decide which one represents the utopian Truth? Another choice. So, really, it is a bit of a mess, but somehow we have to sort it out, peacefully, I hope. What we should never allow happen is the forcing of someone’s Truth on the rest of us.