I want to explore the negative polarity.

[Sacred Fool]

  
All that may be so from an externalized standpoint, but there is also the option of focusing mainly on internal work.  In other words, just as one can focus the balance of one's STO efforts towards helping others externally or on inner work, those of the darker path have similar possibilities.  Ergo, committing mass atrocities is one way, and severe internal discipline is another.

Of course, one must concede that either of these can lead to complications in their own realm: imprisonment outwardly, insanity inwardly.  Everything comes with trade-offs, so it pays to choose wisely and act decisively.  What is it to choose wisely?  As mentioned above somewhere, it's to know and to harmonize with your sense of your own deep disposition.  To do otherwise is of questionable value, peregrine says.