The Frivolity Of Evil Analysis

Since the beginning of days, the fight between the goodness and hatred, bravery and cowardice, and benevolence and evil has always existed. The frivolity of evil written by Theodore Dalrymple argues about the existence of evil among us, questions the reasons of its flourish and the reason why we commit evil. He begins his article by informing his audience of his career as a physician in a prison’s hospital where he treated several criminals. He also expressed his passion of treating the poor people because, according to him, treating the poor is more compelling and florid. Dalrymple then expresses the presence of different evil acts he witnessed at his work and in several countries all over the world. Dalrymple expresses different evil acts that evolves because of political evil. He witnessed, in Equatorial Guinea, the tyranny of a dictator who
At some point, Dalrymple thought that his home country, Britain, had fled from the evil of political deformations and their consequences. He says “I optimistically supposed that, in the absence of the worst political deformations, widespread evil was impossible. I soon discovered my error. Of course, nothing that I was to see in a British slum approached the scale or depth of what I had witnessed elsewhere.” He claims the evil acts he witnessed in several countries doesn’t realistically differ from the evil committed by people in Britain, especially if they had the chance. Although there are several political, traditional, and constitutional restraints to commit mass murders in Britain, he suggests that men, wouldn’t hesitate to commit such evil act if they had the possibility and many of them would do everything possible to increase the scope of people they have the power or authority upon them. He says “Men commit evil within the scope available to them. Some evil geniuses,