You know what movie horrifies me maybe more than any movie ever? It's not one where people

get stabbed repeatedly or

where they're monsters or chainsaws or anything like that. I mean those things are

just ridiculous and you can kind of take them for what they are. The movies that scare

me are the dystopian ones that demonstrate a tremendous understanding

of human nature and what happens when the relationship with your neighbors and with the state goes wrong and we start weaponizing the force of

consensus against people to do horrible Orwellian things to each other.

Those freak me out because they don't feel that fake.

And one of them that freaked me out was called Minority Report.

What was horrifying about Minority Report is they cooked up this weird system

where they enslaved some precognizant humans who could sort of see

the future vaguely, and then these officers would go out and arrest people for crimes they

hadn't committed yet, but that fate determined they were definitely going to commit later.

But as the movie unfolds, you realize really quickly, well that sounded nice at first, but now it sounds

horrifying. And at some point, I wonder what would be like if that thing got turned around on you and then it does get turned around on the point of view character.

And you're like, yeah, yep, I thought so.

I would hate it. This is bad and it just should be abolished and this definitely should not be happening.

Well, we run into a situation that is kind of

minority reportee when we get to Matthew 7 and verse 6. So once again

Matthew 7-6 comes on the heels of Jesus giving that very famous teaching about don't judge or you two will be

judged the measure that you use that's the one that's going to get used on you which kind of

speaks to the minority report principle as well but then we roll into this

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