Recently I was told to read three pieces of literature. A short story called Minority Report, by Philip K. Dick. A song called “I Don’t Like Mondays” by The Boomtown Rats. Also an article about brain scans revealing that criminal minds are “different” from a normal human being. All of the previously noted literature are all related in a way. First things first are to give a brief explanation of each. Minority Report is about a special squad of officers that are called Pre-Crime and they can see crimes before the crimes happen. “I Don’t Like Mondays” was a bit harder to decipher, (probably cause I was thinking to hard) the song seems to be stating that the girl is a criminal but she hasn’t don’t anything yet but she is different and programmed to be a criminal. The article is exactly what it sounds like it’s a article about the physical criminal brain being different from a normal person.
These articles all basically say criminals are born criminals. Or at least criminals have different mental health statuses as opposed normal people. All three articles all bring up the point of morality. Even though we know what makes a criminal a criminal and there is a chance to stop the crimes before they occur, is it moral to do so when that person hasn’t committed the crime. Personally I don’t think its moral to arrest a person because his brain is shaped differently or if you have a “psychic” tell you that this guy is going to kill this guy. BUT I do believe that if you have such intelligence, that you should use it to your advantage. For example if a brain scan reveals that this person resembles that of a criminal brain, then keep him/her under surveillance. Man morality gets in the way a lot doesn’t it.
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