By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - G.K. Chesterton said the reason we get angry is that we’ve never learned to argue well. Argument helps us to identify and solve conundrums, and directs efforts to maintain justice and overcome human suffering. Our ability to argue well includes the capacity to identify unwavering first principles for reasonable application, informed by prudential judgments... The law of gravity is non-negotiable as a first principle of physics. We may try to defy the law, but gravity will always win. Rocket science only works by taking into account the law of gravity. So it is with morality. ...