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Alex Rohner Minority Report Blog 

Blog post #1

In Minatory Report, the Pre-crime operation uses humans called "Pre-cogs". Pre-cogs can see into the future and determine violent crimes before they happen. When a Pre-cog predicts a crime the name of the victim and the criminal are printed on a color coded ball (i.e. red for crime of passion). The precime comity then sees the vision of the crime and goes to the crime scene to stop it before it happens. The pre-cogs are kept in a pool where they lay helplessly in a half-asleep half-awake state. The pre-cogs have no control over their actions and are forced to lay there and see the future. These pre-cogs can not live their life and some might consider it torture to be kept in the conditions that they are kept in. It is extremely unethical the way they are treated because these Pre-cogs are human beings with feelings and a mind with their own ideas. They have no life to live except to lay unaware of their surroundings and see painful visions of violet crime. In the real world, I don't know if humans will ever be able to function like Pre-cogs. There are certainly many myths of people seeing into the future but it doesn't seem realistic to me. But anything is possible.

Blog Post #2

In Minority Report the media endorses many of the features and positive outcomes of the Pre-crime system. They would show P.S.A. commercials of people effected by Pre-crime and how it saved their life, or the life of a loved one. The media had a huge say in what the public thought of Pre-crime. This can be an issue in society because the public isn't exposed to the negatives of Pre-crime. If the government controls the media they can control what the public thinks about a specific topic. I don't think that media endorsements of technology should exist if the certain technology is as big as Pre-crime is. Although, I think the public should be aware the Pre-crim because criminals could be scared to commit their crimes if they know that the will be caught.

Blog Post #3

My favorite scene in Minority Report was when after John Anderton has been running from the Pre-crime officers and is about to commit the murder that the Pre-cogs predicted. I liked this particular part because you are almost certain that the Pre-cogs were wrong and that the crime would not happen. But then there is a twist when Leo Crow pulled the trigger himself while John Anderton was holding the gun. The Pre-cogs did see the vision correctly but it wasn't Anderton's fault. I don't think that this is something that would happen in our future because it seems very unrealistic that people could ever see the future in the way the the Pre-cogs did.