I believe that offering security for all is necessary, but the way they offer it in the film Minority Report is extremely unethical. Everywhere you go in our nation’s capital, Washington D.C., is monitored by retina scanners which track where people are in the city. Whether you are shopping, or going to work or riding the metro the scanners and ultimately the police know exactly where you are. This system completely ignores our right to privacy as human beings. I do believe that in the film the price to pay for security is way too high. The Precrime system in D.C. did eliminate murder completely for a span of 6 years, but it also put innocent people away in prison. The precogs saw that these people were going to commit crimes, but they really didn’t commit them yet, thus making them innocent. But after the “criminals” were arrested, the halos were placed on their heads. Once the halos were on them they were at the total mercy of the police, and the police could extract and information or memories from the peoples subconscious minds. The extraction of information is a serious violation of privacy. As our world moves closer and closer and beings to advance into a world similar to the one in Minority Report, it’s scary to think that the one safe place we have left is our minds and that in the future that might not even be safe anymore. Where will the line be drawn?
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