Good-Hearted Evil
November 21, 2011
IN OUR perverse world, evil often wears the face of a good-hearted man. At VFR, Lawrence Auster writes about the French official who defended the decision to allow a 17-year-old boy who had raped a girl free without warning others of his record. The rapist was accepted to a private school, where he raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl:
If there were in the West conservatives or traditionalists worthy of the name, what would they say about a case like this? They would say that they reject to its bottom-most roots our modern liberal society which places the well-being and possible rehabilitation of violent criminals over the safety of the innocent. They would say that when a person announces by his behavior that he is a grave threat to society, he must be separated from society forever.