Sure doing wrong is wrong. But using your guts, grit, intelligence, youthful energy and loving it, make it more wrong. Even in American law, intent matters. If you left the iron on by mistake and the building burned down, it matters that it was an accident. That's very different from setting the fire and enjoying it from across the street, and the penalty will be different, even though the fire is the same fire.
Anybody can do wrong slowly and languidly and hardly noticing. That can be excused much more than someone who invests high energy into doing wrong.
Sure doing wrong is wrong. But using your guts, grit, intelligence, youthful energy and loving it, make it more wrong. Even in American law, intent matters. If you left the iron on by mistake and the building burned down, it matters that it was an accident. That's very different from setting the fire and enjoying it from across the street, and the penalty will be different, even though the fire is the same fire.
Anybody can do wrong slowly and languidly and hardly noticing. That can be excused much more than someone who invests high energy into doing wrong.
No?
No. You're working backwards from the answer you gave.
I think the translation is wrong, or something. Considering that particular line just doesn't make a lot of sense.