Gamer
I went to the trailers section on the Apple website and found a little gem.
Amber Valletta.. = instant win.
But with Crank, Death Race, that movie with the convicts on that island.. and now Gamer...
Why is it that watching cons get killed.. entertaining? At the end of the day they are still people, wasting their lives in such a destructive way, considering what it does to the social conscience.. is not entertaining.
I'll watch it because of Amber Valletta but it chaffe's to see yet another movie stripping the rights of criminals away.
Perhaps there should be a more clear distinction made between body and person..
A criminal mind can't easily be reprogrammed, and we waste too much more trying.
IF a system could be put into place that did successfully reprogram, or wipe their minds completely clean.. total memory erasure.. for example.. that I'd be less offended by.
That person, John Doe, would be an able bodied citizen. Their previous life would effectively end. That person would be declared dead as that person was unfit to live in society.
Richard Morgan's take on it is more specific. If you have a criminal or someone who just wants to relinquish their tenure withing their body.. ok. Fine. The mind is backed up and the 'person' is wiped. The body becomes a vessel for another mind to subsume that vessel.
In reality it would be something like a drug given to a convict or someone looking to set free, which wipes out long and short term memory. As long as the brain isn't damaged a new persona could be built inside of that fresh new mind.
The question would then be who's responsibility is that fresh new person? If they remain wards of the state you could see them being trained like interns in a specific government role.
As long as they are cared for the same way prisoners should be, then at the end of the day those that are wiped clean are better off, they have skills, no record and were assigned a good position in society. It would be harder I think for that fresh new person to have any resentment for the system the was naturally born people, raised by unskilled care givers etc.. put through ridiculous public shooling systems and exposed to all manner of mind corruption.. reality tv.. They would be clean.. at least in theory.
It would make for a good movie at least. Hopefully without all the blood and carnage.
Rather I could reformat my book.. at least the ending.. to allow for a sequel to take on this theme.
hmmm.
I went to the trailers section on the Apple website and found a little gem.
Amber Valletta.. = instant win.
But with Crank, Death Race, that movie with the convicts on that island.. and now Gamer...
Why is it that watching cons get killed.. entertaining? At the end of the day they are still people, wasting their lives in such a destructive way, considering what it does to the social conscience.. is not entertaining.
I'll watch it because of Amber Valletta but it chaffe's to see yet another movie stripping the rights of criminals away.
Perhaps there should be a more clear distinction made between body and person..
A criminal mind can't easily be reprogrammed, and we waste too much more trying.
IF a system could be put into place that did successfully reprogram, or wipe their minds completely clean.. total memory erasure.. for example.. that I'd be less offended by.
That person, John Doe, would be an able bodied citizen. Their previous life would effectively end. That person would be declared dead as that person was unfit to live in society.
Richard Morgan's take on it is more specific. If you have a criminal or someone who just wants to relinquish their tenure withing their body.. ok. Fine. The mind is backed up and the 'person' is wiped. The body becomes a vessel for another mind to subsume that vessel.
In reality it would be something like a drug given to a convict or someone looking to set free, which wipes out long and short term memory. As long as the brain isn't damaged a new persona could be built inside of that fresh new mind.
The question would then be who's responsibility is that fresh new person? If they remain wards of the state you could see them being trained like interns in a specific government role.
As long as they are cared for the same way prisoners should be, then at the end of the day those that are wiped clean are better off, they have skills, no record and were assigned a good position in society. It would be harder I think for that fresh new person to have any resentment for the system the was naturally born people, raised by unskilled care givers etc.. put through ridiculous public shooling systems and exposed to all manner of mind corruption.. reality tv.. They would be clean.. at least in theory.
It would make for a good movie at least. Hopefully without all the blood and carnage.
Rather I could reformat my book.. at least the ending.. to allow for a sequel to take on this theme.
hmmm.