There are many cases where this would be a great thing - incredibly great. That which doesn't kill you doesn't always make you stronger, sometimes it just remains as a trauma, and a bad memory to hold you back from trusting people, living your life.
Minority Report - they'd track down and imprision people before they could commit the murder (right before) they were going to commit - not kill them. That movie drove me nuts. I'm a big believer in the needs of the many come before the needs of the one (to semiquote vulcans some more). Here they have a society without murder - think of everyone killed that just makes the news, just in the last few months - they're all fine. Most murders are prevented because people know they will be caught, the few crimes of passion that aren't controllable that way still don't happen because the person is stopped first. The cost - 3 psychics who can't function in the real world living their lives telling them when and where the next murder will be. And because this got one murder slightly wrong (no innocent convicted, just one guilty man out of two missed), they destroy the whole system, go back to murders everywhere. And this is presented as a happy ending, a good thing. Ticked me off!
Minority Report - they'd track down and imprision people before they could commit the murder (right before) they were going to commit - not kill them. That movie drove me nuts. I'm a big believer in the needs of the many come before the needs of the one (to semiquote vulcans some more). Here they have a society without murder - think of everyone killed that just makes the news, just in the last few months - they're all fine. Most murders are prevented because people know they will be caught, the few crimes of passion that aren't controllable that way still don't happen because the person is stopped first. The cost - 3 psychics who can't function in the real world living their lives telling them when and where the next murder will be. And because this got one murder slightly wrong (no innocent convicted, just one guilty man out of two missed), they destroy the whole system, go back to murders everywhere. And this is presented as a happy ending, a good thing. Ticked me off!
