I Now Nominate Ms. Cleo for Pre-crime Division

    I would like to first state that if the Precognitives are to be deemed in any society as the “Know all’s”, along with being the predictors of major crimes such as murder, at minimum they should all have to reach a 100% consensus before any actions are taken upon citizens. In the film Minority Report, Agatha, Arthur, and Dasher, along with their visions, singlehandedly had the power to cause a person within the D.C. Metropolitan area to be locked away, for crimes such as murder, or even premeditated murder, based off a future prediction in time. Now, I call these visions predictions because as I already stated, the visions were not all reached by consensus, and therefore these visions essentially could be labeled as guesses. This concept of stopping major crimes before they happen doesn’t quite sound realistic to me, simply for the fact that it was pointed out in the movie that the three Precognitives didn’t always share the same vision(s) in regards to murders taking place. Also, since this system of predicting murders can be finagled by corruption, would someone really be okay with the fact that their freedom may be taken away for life because of a fluke prediction?

     With this concept of predicting people’s future holding as the law of the land, couldn’t any prediction be just as good as the next? If this is the case, I certainly nominate Ms. Cleo to join the precognitive initiatives, since there was once a time when her predictions would taken as “Law” by many believers of her future visions, only to be debunked after finding out that it was all just a money scam, that was essentially altering many peoples lives for the worst. I don’t truly feel that one individual who knows nothing about you can “See” your future, and even furthermore, I don’t think that the words coming out of those same people’s mouths should be taken seriously, but, “To each his own”.

     Now let’s examine what these types and kinds of powers would mean in 2013. Personally I feel that in today’s society; too many people are locked up without a fair conviction and trial, and sometimes with no evidence against them at all! This generally happens due to profiling, and I would have to wonder realistically how many more jails and prisons would have to be constructed to house all those who would be convicted on the word of these kinds of future predictions. Even worst, this system of prediction in the movie was shown to be flawed in the sense that it could be manipulated. In a sense, I do see some correlations to our justice system in America, it just goes by another name.

     Since the rate of murders in the film was at an eye raising low, I can see some beneficial aspects of precognitive predictions, but if this film was taking place in this day and time, I surely hope that I would never have a false future prediction placed against me, especially knowing that it was essentially just based off of a guess.

  If future telling is the way to go, Ms. Cleo, along with any Tarot card reader would probably be some of the most powerful, and influential people within our society, let’s just hope that doesn’t happen.