Since the intellect can only deal with an idea in a comparative or relative sense, we cannot use it to resolve moral or ethical questions. The intellect cannot solve these problems because it cannot transcend its own relativity. It will seek to find the most direct course of action that leads to a fulfillment of the desire and it only discriminates between what is possible and what is not. Our emotions also function in their own relative, ever changing world, unable to discriminate between relative values and timeless principles. Emotions can give us a strong creative drive and the enthusiasm that is capable of producing the greatest of human achievements.
Emotions are also responsible for creating some of the worst human tragedies.
Emotions are unable to discriminate between right and wrong desires, since they will act blindly upon any impulse they receive. Therefore, if we allow our emotions to direct the course of our society we will most likely be on a roller coaster of ups and downs. What we see is that it is neither the intellect, nor the emotions that allow us to identify injustice because they cannot deal with absolute principles, only with relative values. Inalienable rights are based on something that forms a golden middle way between intellect and emotions. It is an ability to go within, to contact something not affected by outer conditions.