Are Evil Intentions A Crime?
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Are Evil Intentions A Crime? It could be said, especially in this time when so many live in constant fear of the possible crimes resulting from increased terrorist activities, that Stephen Spielberg's intent was as much to make a political statement as it was to produce a highly entertaining and dramatically engaging sci-fi film with Minority Report. Ironically, we cannot be sure of Spielberg's intent unless he himself confirmed such to be true. Spielberg's film, Minority Report, envisions a society in which people are arrested for crimes they have not yet committed. How can the government know, with such certainty, that these future crimes will occur? Three "pre-cogs," genetic freaks possessing the power to see the future, exercise their pre-cognitive abilities through an experimental demonstration of governmental power of intervention. This government program relies on the majority opinion of these pre-cognitive minds to either prevent the commission of intentional crimes,...

