The Frivolity Of Evil By Theodore Dalrymple

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

He witnessed, in Equatorial Guinea, the tyranny of a dictator who kills any person who wore glasses or any person caught with a page with printed matter for being a potentially disaffected intellectual. He also supports the evolve of political evil in other countries like Liberia and North Korea: where the citizens of these countries are either getting murdered or terrorized by their own leaders. 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