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William Onuscheck- Minority Report

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In an infallible police state is the idea that there is a system in place that makes no mistake in catching criminals. However, in Minority Report, the pre-crime system is shown to be fallible. The issue arises that the public and most of the people working for pre-crime believe it to be true. In an ideal society, there would be a 100% foolproof system, but pre-crime is not one. However, realistically, a perfect system probably will never exist so it may be best to remove the term "infallible police" from all use but speculation. In countries such as North Korea the police are infallible, but not because they are never wrong, but rather anyone to insinuate otherwise is committing treason. In systems where no fair trial is given, they don't have to be correct to prosecute. The same goes for countries we see as fair, such as Japan, where only one percent of defendants get acquitted.

Ariana Mitchell Minority Report

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1)An infallible police state is when the police do not make any mistakes. The whole process of handling crime is perfect and no has no flaws. The police system in Minority Report is said to be infallible by the people who live in the area. The administrators and everyone who works at the police department think that their method is flawless because the murder and crime rate has decreased drastically since they began using this system. 2)I don’t think that this should be used in our society because it is not flawless. The creator of the system herself said that the whole thing is very flawed and that innocent people have had their lives taken away because of this. I think that there is a lot of room for error with this system. People do not always act upon what they are thinking and the whole future telling thing can’t always be so reliable. John Anderton, the chief of the whole department, was a victim of the whole method himself. John was set up by Lamar so that he would kill the m...

Will Chehab Pre Crime

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I will be analyzing pre crime as a sign of a totally protective government. To be a totally protective government means to have control over the people and their actions. You don't let people have free will in every situation in order to control their mindset. Pre crime instills fear in individuals to think of a murder because they will get caught, yet it is protective because it stops murders before they take place. The government is totally protective of the people and its murders, but not totally protective in other crimes like rape or kidnappings. I don't think this term should be apart of our society. I feel like a totally protective government hurts the people because it puts too much on hypotheticals, like how the pre crime is the prediction of murders, and it causes for innocent people to be locked up. A government should be protective, but not totally protective. The government right now is trying to be protective of our borders (specifically Mexico) but they are tear ...

Sylvi Imrem minority report

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1) A totally proctective government is a government that will do anything for the safety of the majority of its citizens. This includes disregarding their privacy, and potentially endangering, or worsening conditions for a few to make life better for everybody else. This is basically the premise of the enitre movie. The government has found a way to completely cut out murders, and while it comes at the cost of the lives of the precogs and Anne Lively, they decide the ends justify the means, and saving the lives of everyone else is worth ruining the lives of a few. 2) I don't think governments should be all protective, especially in the way shown in the movie. I think it is unfair for the government to sacrafice the lives of few to protect the many. The government is not meant to act as a God and decide life and death they are just supposed to write and enforce laws. In addition, the way the government acts in this movie is by stopping crimes before they happen, this aspect of this...

Meghan Maguire-Minority Report

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Define Term: An endorsement of technology by society means that society is accepting and approving the use of technology that is being used. An endorsement is a form of public support or approval. In the movie Minority Report society in Washington DC endorsed all the different technology that was being used by the pre crime unit. Should this term be used as part of the society? I think that endorsement of technology by society should be used by society. I think this because technology is constantly growing and society needs to support it for the most part. The technology that we have today to help us with our everyday tasks would not be here if society had not supported it. I think when the technology will only end up causing negative effects on society we should not endorse it. Recent events in the news: I think that if this technology had been in place the parkland high school shooting would not have occurred. I think the the pre crime unit could have predicted that the gu...
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Ben Bruns A totally protective government is a government which goes to extraordinary measures and controls a large amount of power so that it can successfully monitor and “protect” its citizens. While I believe that the government has a responsibility to protect its citizens to the best of its ability, I also believe that it is vital to a free society that a government not become overly powerful over the people. The people must be more powerful than the government and in a protective government, hyper surveillance is required for a totally protective government to be able to operate. Pre crime would have prevented the Las Vegas shooting because they could have seen the murders ahead of time and they could have prepared to stop the shooter.

Minority Report Fiona Willman

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Pre-crime as a sign of a totally protective government. Each time someone had an idea of killing or hurting someone else the government would be notified and come to take that person. This is an example of a protective government. The government is trying to protect the people if it’s country and by doing that they are taking away all of the crime and violence in the world. I do not think the over protective government in the movie should be a part of our government because it takes away people’s privacy. The government is constantly watching everyone and even if you do not physically try to kill someone, and you only think about it, the government will still take you. This also leaves a place for error. Since they are using technology, they cannot be 100% positive that everyone they take is the one doing the harm. If pre-crime was taken place today, the school shootings that are going on might not happen. In a more protective government, all of the shootings could be preven...