After pondering over the quote from Tao Te Ching, I feel that it seems to imply an Ideal of leading by example as the best way to change the ways of someone bad. The quote suggests that it is the duty of a good person to reform those that are bad through action. In the line, “If you don't understand this, you will get lost”, I believe it is implying that by denying a bad person the chance at reform, writing them off as ‘bad’ or as just some other person who does not matter, strengthens the ego, making them lost in an illusion of separation. That action would make them just as lost as a bad person is on the path of life. The good person, by thinking he is better than the bad person, just further strengthens a false sense of superiority and individual
