To me, the moral of this story is that people need to fight to keep their humanity. If they do not care about intellectual and emotional life, it will be taken away from them.
In this story, Guy Montag and people like him have very unhappy lives. They do not have serious thoughts and they do not have emotional relationships. Why is this? It is because people have stopped caring about stuff like that. People have chosen mindless entertainment over things that will make them think. They have chosen to watch the parlor walls and things like that instead of hanging out with friends and family in the real world.
So Bradbury is warning us -- if you don't think, you will lose the option of thinking. If you just watch TV and stuff instead of interacting with people, no one will care about each other. He is telling us that we need to think and to care about other people or we will end up in a dystopian world like Montag's.
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