Theodore Dalrymple's Essay: The Frivolity Of Evil

"The Frivolity Of Evil"

Theodore Dalrymple, 2004
Essay by, Marcelo Vargasluna

Theodore Dalrymple was actually born Anthony Malcolm Daniels on October 11th, 1949. Theodore Dalrymple was Mr. Daniels pen name for the purposes of his writing's. Theodore is an English writer and retired prison Doctor and Psychiatrist of 14 years, whom wrote an article in 2004 in a magazine called "The Frivolity Of Evil" discussing his thoughts on Evil itself.

Let's now take a moment to address exactly what Theodore's main arguments were concerning this particular paper "The Frivolity Of Evil". He begins by expressing his personal views on paying debts to society, and the different aspect's of it. Our current Judicial system in the United States Of America

It is no surprise that these questions would then arise in one's mind. All of these were political evils to which his own country had been blessed to have avoided. This leads him to believe that, "Widespread evil was impossible". Unfortunately, he soon came to realize that this was in fact not the

He implies that this is a vicious cycle that is passed from one generation to the next. Britain's welfare system in the process fueling the fire of his beliefs. Theodore goes on to uncover some of Britain's dark secrets hidden behind closed doors, e.g. tortures at the hands of drug lords collecting debts. These are just a few examples of what Theodore had come to understand as an equally great Evil just in a different form. Theodore makes an enlightening argument "A ridiculous pas de deux between doctor and patient ensues: the patient pretends to be ill, and the doctor pretends to cure him. In the process, the patient is willfully blinded to the conduct that inevitably causes his misery in the first place." From this, I take that he believes that all circumstances surrounding misery endured are self-inflicted, and can only be rectified by a drastic change in ones way of living and