Meursault is indeed a threat to societynot just to French society, but to any society.
The main danger that he poses is that he doesn't believe in anything. As such, there's little or
nothing that society can do to control him. No positive inducement to conform to society's norms
and expectations will ever work on someone so thoroughly nihilistic in his moral outlook. For
someone like Meursault, killing someone is like crossing the road or putting on a pair of pants.
So long as such people are at liberty, there's simply no telling what they might do.
In fact, Meursault's amorality is considerably more dangerous to society than the
immorality of the violent pimp Raymond Sintes. Sintes's actions,...
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