lity of a human being: mental freedom. This raises the question whether he was worse when being human but evil or when being conditioned, when acting according to the rules but lacking his human qualities. Thinking about this one has to ask whether the state has the right to change criminals into clockwork oranges.
             [...] A human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil [...]. It is inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice"
             is what Burgess raises in his introduction. By conditioning criminals the choice of good or evil is taken away from them – they can only act according to what they should. With the Ludovico Technique the state manages to reach safety from the lawless youngsters it created. Here another problem comes up: the state is responsible for the existence of criminals like Alex. But instead of preventing teenagers from becoming criminals the state tries to
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