I think the problem is actually the one that is not included in the excerpt, but which the author does touch on later in the article.
Liberals do not want to take responsibility. In fact, any time someone does something bad, liberals want to blame the action on anything other than bad choices. Somehow, “society” caused the person to do bad things—they couldn’t help their actions any more than Pavlov’s dogs could help salivating at the sound of a bell. And so, to punish them for actions over which they had no control is terrible unfair.
Instead, society must be punished, and more and more dictatorial control must be placed on society to change it from one that induces criminal behavior to one in which everyone lives in a wonderful utopia where everyone has everything they need—food, shelter, phones, cars—and no one has to work. And when we achieve that utopia (which evil conservatives oppose), no one will ever commit crimes again.
I agree