Morality In Minority Report

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A question of morality arises when deciding upon whether sacrificing a life to save a multitude of others is just. The issue is to be determined by the individual, it comes up to the how much someone values life. In a utilitarian view, everything must be done to protect the good of the masses. This is the situation that arose in Minority Report with Pre-Crime, by predicting murders and stopping them before they happened they prevented the anguish the murder created. Although they weren’t killed to prevent murder, the prisoner state they were placed in was almost as if their life was taken away. For myself murdering someone to save others has many dependencies. If I had to kill a loved one, to save countless others, my choice would likely be

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