Anyone who has read the book will know the issue it brings up re: crime and I want to open it up to the FHOT as I think it'd be rather interesting.
Say a government had the power to brain-wash/persuade every member of the public not to commit a crime, would you condone it?
On the one side, you would have a friendly, harmless, crime-free environment - yet on the other side, you have one of the fundamental human rights taken away - that to think and act for yourself.
The author of A Clockwork Orange believed that you should punish those who commit crimes but once you take away the ability for them to produce these crimes, you dehumanize them - which he believed was one of the greatest crimes of all.
Thoughts? Opinions?
Say a government had the power to brain-wash/persuade every member of the public not to commit a crime, would you condone it?
On the one side, you would have a friendly, harmless, crime-free environment - yet on the other side, you have one of the fundamental human rights taken away - that to think and act for yourself.
The author of A Clockwork Orange believed that you should punish those who commit crimes but once you take away the ability for them to produce these crimes, you dehumanize them - which he believed was one of the greatest crimes of all.
Thoughts? Opinions?