is cured, but whether anything of a moral nature can be assigned to a human being who has his freedom of choice taken from him by conditioning or by force. If morality is making choices, then the person stripped of choice cannot be moral or immoral. He is nothing but a machine. One can champion such conditioning in the name of controlling behavior, but not in the name of creating more moral human beings. Burgess may be suggesting that it is preferable to have a free individual ravaging the countryside, raping and destroying, than it is to make an obedient citizen out of him through a process which removes his freedom.
Solomon includes these comments on religion, specifically Christianity, from Nietzsche:
Christianity . . . has placed all the basic instincts
. . . under the ban, and out of these instincts it has distilled evil and the Evi
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