Historically I have said repeatedly, "Intuition opens you up and expands your senses. Fear or anxiety close you down and shut you off."
I have noticed over a period of about a decade and a half of self-study and work on my place in a civilized world, or society of any kind, be it secular or requiring the group solidarity of admittance and belief in core principles, (or what have you, as most special interest groups include); that many times when people veer away from their place in the world, to have new experiences, there is a successful route and an unsuccessful route to expanding one's mind and heart. That one which is honoured by the new learning and grows new abilities that are skillful or virtuous is the one to generally follow forward. It can be the successful one in an ideal system, at times.
Anyone who knows a person who experiences symptoms like the ones listen in the DSM VI or earlier, for Borderline or other Personality Disorders that are manipulative, (or without the vulgarity of that word and it's stigma, they may seek to find control in a world where they have very little and have learned that harmful or unhelpful techniques work well), knows that sometimes the world is actually a bad place. In times of strife, and not quite war, but just as bad to the folk, people are actually "out to get you" or harm you intentionally or maybe seek revenge through you on your loved ones who appreciate you and rely on you, and they hurt you for irrelevant reasons that have nothing at all to do with you, even to the point where it ends in gaslighting about paranoia and unnecessary medication prescriptions.
There are other relevant scenarios why the "high road" you may have been envisioning as ideal is not the only one, and a "damage control" or "harm reduction" orientation is acceptable.