Good afternoon,
I just watched a movie from the 70's called "A Clockwork Orange" a few hours ago. Its a film about a gang of hoodlums in england who just go around beating people up, stealing and raping women...just terrible stuff. The leader alex is soon set up by his three "brother's" and is jailed after committing manslaughter. While in jail he volunteers for an experimental treatment that makes him physically sick when exposed to any type of violence of crime. [Thats all your getting out of me as far as a synopsis haha.] It got me to thinking, in theory a treatment like this would be a great idea. wrong doers would treated and able to be released back into society absolutely cured. It would free up crowded prisons and would indeed make an impact on crime. Upon further thinking I realized its not as good of a treatment as i previously thought. Treatment like this robs people of in essence what makes us human beings, the right to choose between right and wrong. prison is the consequence for choosing wrong/ breaking the law. This treatment eliminates the need for prison, the consequence is now losing your right to choose. It also completely rules out self defense. There in all lies the problem the judicial system and/or the government arent permitted to take away people's right to choose between right and wrong, they simply must provide consequences for each choice. Anyway it was a great movie, it was a full movie, a little over 2hrs long. The length i feel most movies should be.
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