Saturday, December 6, 2008
Injustice During 1984
Friday, in class, we watched a movie called Minority Report where they would arrest people for murder before they actually committed the crime. This reminded me of a book I read last year called 1984. It was based on a totalitarian government (dictatorship). A principle they followed was arresting people based on thoughtcrime. Basically, if a person even hinted at being against the government, even if it was a twitch of an eye, they'd arrest the person and they'd probably end up being killed. This is wrong. I think it's wrong if a government accuses people and then arrests them just off of a hunch. This also clearly violates freedom of speech. A person should be allowed to voice their own opinions on something without being killed. I believe there should be diversity in a country, not have everyone blindly follow and agree what one ruler says.
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Yeah I agree. Although, here's the one thought I'm struggling with: in the movie, they did actually stop all the murders that were going to happen. And so it did end up helping people, but on the other hand it is kind of crossing the border into a person's private life. To me it's a little less bad then wiretapping. When they wiretapped people, they were searching for someone, so they listened to everything. However in the movie, it was selective, they didn't peer into everyone's life, the 3 people saw the murder and they acted on it. I don't think free speech is limited, but in cases of death, I don't have a problem with them stopping it before it happens.
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