Sunday, September 18, 2011

You're sending me to jail? Why?! I haven't done anything wrong!

           From the combined efforts of reading "Minority Report", the article about the criminal mind, and the song "I don't like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats i am slightly confused and mind blown. I did not quite understand the song, but i fully understood "minority Report" and the article.Scanning criminals brains to see what makes them different has been known about for quite a while.  Somehow some parts of their frontal lobes( emotions) don't work or haven't matured like a regular person. So if a person has a mental disorder (I'm guessing that now being a sociopath is a mental disorder) they could commit a crime without even knowing that they committed one. So should they be held liable for their crimes? They don't even know that their doing something wrong but on the other hand they are causing harm to someone. Could being a sociopath be used as a get out of jail free card? They still have done something wrong, so shouldn't they be punished? And if we could correct the problem before it starts are we being like the people like the "Minority Report"? How can we, society , do something to someone based on what their likely to do? Until that individual is actually on the verge of committing the crime only then can we know their intent. Locking up Innocent people is wrong.(By the way "MR" was one of the best short stories I've ever read) How can you punish someone when they haven't committed a crime? And on the subject of the song, i don't really understand it. I even went of you tube and watched the video ( the lead singer looks like Jerry Seinfeld) Are they talking about killing children and really seem to dislike Mondays. I think this all(except the song) relates to Crime and Punishment. If brain scanning had been around during Raskolnikov's time he wouldn't have been considered crazy, he would have just had a mental problem and he would have gotten help. He may would not have committed the crime in the first place if technology was available. And that would be especially true in the "Minority Report's" storyline. In there he would not have committed the crime in the first place.The crime would have been foreseen and and he would not have committed it.

P.S Could the Song be explained on Monday?

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