The Barrow

At some point during the 2010s when I was an aggressively fervent leftist, I mused it was far worse for someone to engage in behavior they knew was wrong than it was for someone to engage in the same behavior without such a belief. In some ways this might be somewhat true, but lately I've been musing almost the opposite: it is better to have a moral compass and know where the path lies, regardless of how well you stay on it. Maybe both are true to some degree. However, I think I would rather deal with another person who knows where the road is, regardless of what wandering we do in the woods. I myself probably wander off into the woods more often than I should, and I think maybe more paths and trails can be cut through the wilderness (especially where a path lay before), but wandering without any direction or orientation is perhaps the worst way to navigate the dark forests of life.