Deviance

"A guiding assumption of our inquiry here, however, is that norm violators are symptoms of social problems, not the disease itself. In other words, most deviants are victims and should not be blamed entirely by society for their deviance; rather, the system they live in should be blamed."

'Social Problems' - Eitzen, Zinn and Smith

A wise history teacher of mine once made the claim that liberals have a problem with human nature. I didn't completely understand what he meant (I had actually just finished saying liberals were complete idiots... his refined analysis caught me off guard), but now I think I do. If we can't accept our nature, that we have free will, that there is evil/wrong and good/right actions, and that our free will can choose evil, then you get the above quote. Get this: if we say that there are deviants and there are non-deviants, and the deviants are victims of a society of which they are not a part of, that means that non-deviants cause deviance. How's that work?