It is easy to ignore the gray of the real world when you’re the white. Ironically (or not so), this is a concept so deeply ingrained in the culture, it is within the subconscious.
Kuang, in this story, takes on an incredibly old trope: the guilty conscience of the actor is not worked through internally like we see so often nowadays; rather, it is an external attack on the individual that they must run from or fight. The Ancient Greeks called them the Furies.