Tag: 1980s

How Moral Panic Hijacks Individual Autonomy

[A] human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good
and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork
orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and
juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since
this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State. (Burgess)