Clockwork Paradox

My favorite dialogue of the novel is on page 106 when the Prison Chaplain is talking to Alex about the treatment that he is about to undergo. During this conversation, the Prison Chaplain asks several hypothetical and paradoxical questions. At this point, it is obvious that the treatment that Alex is about to receive is still doubted by moral standards. "Very hard ethical questions are involved," says the Chaplain. "You are to be made into a good boy... It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good." And then the Chaplain is spiraled into deep thought and questioning in which is not so much talking to Alex as he is asking himself. "What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321. His speech ends with "And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. So I shall like to think. "so, God help us all, 6655321, I shall like to think." The questions that the man asks will never be truly answered - not until you sit down for coffee with the big guy upstairs. It can't hurt to toy with the ideas though. Here are my thoughts...
Our current system in which the bad are punished and the good (supposedly) are rewarded is the way God intended. People are born with a choice. They make a choice to be good or to be bad. This very choice is what makes this world diverse and colorful. If everyone was forced to be good, that would obviously mean there is no bad in the world. With no bad, there is also no bravery, no courage, no ability to overcome adversity because there is no adversity. The difference between the good and the bad is what keeps the world circulating and revolving. That said, Alex does not choose to be good, like the Prison Chaplain tries to think toward the end of his rambling. The man thinks that Alex has chosen the good because he knows that this process will only allow him to do good things, but that is not the reason for Alex's choice. Alex clearly wants to be a victim of the process because it will get him out of the staja much earlier than planned. Alex believes he will have freedom when he is released, but there turns out to be less freedom after he is released then there actually was in the prison.