Theodore Dalrymple on a Psychopathic Murderer and Flaws in the Liberal World-View

Jebus, it's downright distressing how little I agree with what I read from conservatives anymore. This, however, I am sympathetic with, FWIW.

In the piece, "Theodore Dalrymple" discusses a psychopathic murderer/cannibal who committed his crimes while writing a dissertation in "homicide studies." Said psychopath had already given innumerable people irrefutable evidence that he needed a bullet in the brain, but, alas, this evidence was ignored. Oh and: he's lived his whole life at taxpayer expense, to boot...

But Dalrymple's real point is about weaknesses in--as I'd put it--a certain interpretation of the liberal world-view. (He thinks it's liberalism per se; I think not.) (Relevant.) The liberal tendencies to (a) excuse everyone from blame and (b) medicalize every problem lead, as Dalrymple points out, to (though he does not put it this way) the abolition of man. Liberals need not go down that path, of course. One can recognize that some problems are medical without medicalizing everything, and one can recognize that conservatives are too free with blame without doing away with the concept entirely. We can acknowledge the role that biology, history, culture and circumstance play in people's lives without (contra Sam Harris) pretending that they explain everything.

I have to say, ultimately I'm not positive what Dalrymple's point about the pscychopath is supposed to be...but the post is, according to me, worth a glance, at any rate.