It is a large matter and too much to one side of the road to be discussed adequately here; but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making a prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods.
The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice, whereas disease is not.

If you say that you are going to cure a profligate as you cure an asthmatic, my cheap and obvious answer is, "Produce the people who want to be asthmatics as many people want to be Profligates." A man may lie still and be cured of a malady.

But he must not lie still if he wants to be cured of a sin; on the contrary, he must get up and jump about violently.

The whole point indeed is perfectly expressed in the very word which we use for a man in hospital; "patient" is in the passive mood; "sinner" is in the active.

If a man is to be saved from influenza, he may be a patient.