“When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.”
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.