Choice.

"If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."This quote is from Anthony Burgess' classic A Clockwork Orange. Young Alex is the leader of a small gang of "droogs" who terrorize their neighborhood nightly. The four boys work together until the day Alex is betrayed and ends up in prison, where he is forced to undergo psychological and physical conditioning to remove his bad behavior. Every time he sees or thinks of any of the horrible things he once did he is racked with pain. I agree with this novels point of free will is man's most important asset. Right or wrong, what we choose to do makes us who we are. That is something that cannot and definitely should not be taken away by anyone. Society makes the rules on what is and isn't allowed, and it is up to each individual to follow those or not. We as individuals are always at war with ourselves over what is right or wrong. Yes, many times people choose to do wrong. They steal, they lie, they murder. But it is their choice. To try and take away free will to do bad, as the doctors in ACO did to Alex, is the same as taking away the ability to choose Not to do wrong. If we cannot even think of doing wrong, we do not have the opportunity to reject it. Because in the end, that is exactly what we are: Our choices.

"Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"