Minor spoilers - do you think that Alex agreeing for the Ludovico treatment AND as a result...

... him having spared his full length (and let's call a spade a spade, shall we?) prison sentence, what was it 2 years he spent instead of 10, even if it DID take away however incompletely his "free will" (as they say), for the murder of that woman, not to mention, him possibly NOT being charged with other horrible crimes he committed, really does make him an even MORE terrible and immoral character than he already is, regardless of how wrong etc the government was portrayed in the film and what they did to him and others?

Or, even if that option WAS available to him so maybe for that ALONE not all "responsibility" in this department falls on him, would you say that with that short sentence AND the Ludovico treatment, Alex De Large has practically already paid his debt to society and that, OK it may well be an unpopular and controversial opinion (but feel free please to simply DISAGREE rather than become too angry and whatnot), it wouldn't make too much of a difference even if he did spend 10 or more years incarcerated with or without that also controversial scientifically advanced treatment?

(And this is not even taking into account that... OK, I DO understand the whole "if you can't do the time, don't do the..." (and what, do MOST criminals who commit ANY crime even just like that do it because they CAN "do the time"? Did Alex? Though of course I know what it really means and some things are forbidden anyways but still...) although many moral people don't do those things even for reasons OTHER than fear of imprisonment and whatever OTHER things that may take place there beyond incarceration itself, but what if (and in the BOOK apparently, those things nearly DID happen) even if he agreed to such a sentence etc for "justice" purposes something terrible including outright removal of his LIFE happened, so he had RESPECTABLE reasons for shorter sentence than merely wanting to escape justice, be free and, God forbid, repeat his offenses (what if in his few years he actually CONFESSED and APOLOGIZED for it all AND realized he wouldn't and couldn't do it again, and would extra few years really achieve something that say wouldn't with fewer? Again, out of curiosity ALONE. If only life was THIS simple. Besides, one could say that Ludovico treatment WAS in its own way justice, as it made him incapable of being violent anymore AND in a way almost made him a prisoner OUTSIDE those walls.)

So yeah, does it make him more immoral or not, maybe just same or similar etc, that he agreed to the treatment to lessen his incarceration inside? I've read it in some places that actually - hold on to your chairs folks, YES, it DOES (make him MORE immoral that way).

And yet... In spite of all this, we were at times encouraged to feel pity for him still in this movie. Bizarre indeed. But what do we think, thanks.