what is truth?, page-3

so what is the problem with truth being relative - conventional

thou shalt not kill:
but if you are on the battlefield and your buddy is wounded and going to be left to the enemy, then it can be a good thing to end their physical life.

do unto others as you would have them do unto you:
well that is also relative if you believe that are a sado masochist.

he/she died: - that is also a relative statement - death may not be what you think it is

he (or she): is also a relative statement if the person that you are talking about doesn't place a label on themselves according to bodily organs.
some women are more manly than some men who are quite womanly.

a higher 'truth' is a developing skill of discernment.
you can only get so far by following textbook rules of thou shalt or shalt not
the 10 commandments, the buddhist precepts, Chapter 125 of the [Egyptian] Book of the Dead, are only something to get you started - to initiate an intuitive moral response.

it's like learning major and minor scales, sticking to them exclusively creates a relative limitation, but you have to get to know them well, and when you do, you can break out into the modes and them move into jazz, and eventually know the exceptions to the rules so well that, you don't even have to think.
this is how such spontaneity arises.