But this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.


The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton (ed. Vintage, 1985)

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

But this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like ...

But this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like ...

But this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like ...

But this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like ...