Through the readings of Dick's short story, "The Minority Report," the MSNBC article on the neuroscience of criminals, and the lyrics to "I Don't Like Mondays," it hardly surprised me of these informational outcomes. The article and the short story spoke of criminal preventions earlier than what will happen, but their justifications cannot overpower destiny. "The Minority Report" has a Precrime system, where names of individuals will be predicted as a "criminal" through the evaluation of precogs. However, the founder and creator of this so-called Precrime is yet to commit a murder in the end to make sure his system is correct.(Sounds like a dystopian society) How flawed is that?..Yet the article, on the other hand, demonstrates brain scans to reveal the criminal minds of people. The fact that using an illness or mental disability as an excuse to lessen the punishment of causing a murder is yet to be obsequious to the laws of crime. The correlation of the two readings seem to have one main point: preventing or lessening the act of crimes. But the lyrics seems to differ and relate more to Crime and Punishment than the other two. The lyrics speaks of a young girl with no morality in killing children at the playground. She has no reason in doing so except the dislikes of Mondays. (Is that even considered a reason?) Crime and Punishment also has killing reasons, but unlike all of these, guilt is actually the role play here. The short story is what I would say, retarded. To come up with a system of preventing crimes to happen and show names of people doing so, will bring the thought of them planning to do it.Understand? If not, then shall we mention Anderton, the creator of the Precrime System. His mind was never embedded into the act of murder, but since his system showed his name, it finally brought up that thought. (How exciting..)
However, the three readings are so vague in revealing the destiny of crimes. There will always be crime no matter how much we try to restrain it from happening. Yes, it is good to lessen crimes in our society, but think about our freedom. We can't predict whats going to happen today or tomorrow so don't rely on such things and call normal people criminals. All brains are significant in their own way and it cannot specify whether it will cause a crime or not. So please, keep the mental ones on this side, and us on the other.(Don't jump the border)
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