DY: I believe that R’ Schachter explains that the Torah was given to human beings with an inborn (and imperfect) sense of right and wrong. We have to learn the Torah to hone that sense. But the fact is that some things that work Al Pi Din Torah don’t work in an imperfect society. If human beings were all perfect then we could follow the letter of the Dinei HaTorah with no problem. But we aren’t. So we have concepts like Lifnim MiShuras HaDin and G’zeiros D’rabannan in general. So while Halachah might be the ultimate morality for a perfect society, the fact is that there are some cases where the Halachah does not accurately represent the morality of an imperfect world.
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