Which is preferable?
- A person of integrity living an unrighteous lifestyle in accordance with their faulty self-image
- A person of dishonour living a righteous lifestyle in accordance with an accurate self-image
What if identity subversion has been used to cause people to misplace what a righteous life is, and those with the strongest integrity (i.e. fidelity to their warped sense of self) end up more wayward than those who superficially are 'respectable' (but actually devious and deceitful)?
It's been called out long ago, and they hated him for it, enough to torture and hang him.