When we don’t take these moral commands as absolutes and allow exceptions to them, aren’t we really watering them down into insipid rules such as, “Always keep a promise unless you think it is better...

When we don’t take these moral commands as absolutes and allow exceptions to them, aren’t we really watering them down into insipid rules such as, “Always keep a promise unless you think it is better not to”? Doesn’t such an insipid rule allow for so many loopholes that it is ineffective in guiding our actions?