so thinking back to Minority Report, the question that bugged me big time about the movie is how can they justify prosecuting someone for a crime of passion? If someone commits premeditated murder then they truly meant to kill someone, but a crime of passion is spur of the moment and done by a person who isn't in the correct frame of mind. Should that person really be treated like a true criminal simply because they lost his/her head and would've killed someone?
posted by LethalDose at 7:38 PM
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My first response to that question is: do you think it's fair then to punish murderers for their murders of passion without the Minority Report back story? Today, with our system, is it fair to punish them if they just lost their head? To me the answer is "well, yes, of course!" So assuming their system in accurate, why should it be any different? And if it's not accurate, then this question is irrelevant because the real problem is the entire system!
I have to agree with Rachel, a crime of passion is still a crime, the reason it isn't caught as fast is because they weren't thinking about it before it was too late. He would have still committed murder.
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