My first impulse was to give to Baelen and when I heard the misogyny that flowed after I regretted my decision and reloaded.
It's an interesting quest but I think good outcome relies on moral luck. From the conversations in the underdark it seemed equally likely that she would have remained as a battered wife losing both her income and bodily integrity. And Balen gave the impression of a "happy slave" - absolutely being exploited but happy in his simple minded way.
So, yes, in this narrative giving the stalk was the right thing to do but there were plenty of reasons to believe it was the evil choice.
I did the wrong thing initially as well. It wasn't until I revisited the situation and REALLY looked at what was going on that I was able to apply moral reasoning to the problem and reach the right solution. To be clear, psychologists have indicated that we are bad at moral reasoning unless we are trained in it or exposed to a lot of it where we are forced to work through these kinds of problems. It's basically just like a kind of math and it's NOT a fun experience because you end up being WRONG a lot!
All our moral views are basically "reaction formations", and they are predicated on what we learn as children about right and wrong.
If you watch the interview with Maggie Robinson (Orin) - she talks at length about how they built Orin's character based on the fact that this is all she knew as a child, so for her murder is her only way to express anything - and from her point of view is as often an expression of rage as it is of altruism.
