Why: the intellect that, enveloped in darkness, imagines wrong to be right, and sees all things in a perverted way, is of the nature of ignorance, describing the most severely impaired version of discernment, one that has actually inverted right and wrong rather than merely being imperfect about it.

In life: a genuinely inverted moral compass, where wrong is actually mistaken for right rather than simply judged imperfectly, is a much more severe and dangerous condition than ordinary confusion, worth recognizing the difference in severity.

Teaching: distinguish clearly, in yourself or someone else, between ordinary, imperfect moral judgment and a more severe, actually inverted sense of right and wrong, the second is a considerably more serious condition requiring more urgent attention than the first.