blog # 13

I honestly believe that society should look into ethical solutions when it comes to security of the people. In Minority Report sure it was nice that we could have the ability to stop all predetermined murders, but as we saw later on in the movie this was a flawed system as most are in real life. One of the main flaws of the system in the movie was that even though they used three people to help determine the time and place of the murders, two of them usually got wrong images and the entire system depended on the one more powerful female for it to work. This fact here just proves that nothing is full proof. I’m a firm believer that we are destined to do certain things in life, but I must agree that until an action is committed you still have the option or right to change your mind. When tom cruise used the example of the red ball compared to a human he was wrong. Yes the human was about to commit a crime but unless if he gets to the scene too late he will never really know if it’s going to happen. The red ball on the other hand is rolling on the table and rolling to the end. It doesn’t have a choice but to fall because it simple can’t make its own decision. Even in today’s society the whole “innocent until proven guilty” is a joke at times. Sometimes you get people who have all the evidence proving that they are guilty of a crime and get away with it scotch free. Others are falsely imprisoned and left in prison to die without getting a fair shot at pleading their case. I think ethics only gets you as far as your money can provide it. In the article we read “Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report” the author uses an example of how most people who have a heart attack need to get cpr or proper attention within the first three minutes of the attack or they risk the chance of dying. He says that if you knew this information and were encountered with a victim and you knew it was four minutes since the attack, some people wouldn’t even bother. I think that’s wrong, there are so few things in the earth that are 100% full proof, I would personally do the cpr just for the slimmest chance and the hope that I naturally have that I could actually help the person stay alive.