More often than not, our own actions tend to be the very factor that gets us in trouble; from things such as getting a bad grade on a test, getting caught cheating, to more extreme things such as hurting the people you love. People—especially parents—tend to say that the “consequences are a result of your own actions”, and although we tend to roll our eyes at that saying, just how big of an impact does one's actions have on their fate? One major common theme that stood out to me as I read “The Minority Report” was this idea of realizing the weight of your own actions. Throughout the short story, main character Anderton begins to develop an understanding of the flaws in this system he has created and the consequences these flaws may have on …show more content…
When he realized that the minority report that went unannounced due to the very system he had put in place was of importance, he immediately knew that, “He would have to risk it. He had to see the minority report”(Dick 85). This instance of a minority report from a pre-cog canceling out completely what the two other pre-cogs reported may have happened in the past but because these common people don’t constantly have access to the reports made by the pre-cogs the way that Anderton does, thousands of people didn’t stand a chance at even trying to prove themselves innocent. Anderton even goes as far as to admit to his wife that he knew of instances where a minority report gets overshadowed when his wife asks him, “‘I wonder,’ she said, when he had finished, “how many times this has happened before’ ‘A minority report? A great many times’” (Dick 89). Anderton, a man with lots of power, has the opportunity for a second chance to prove the majority report wrong, all while there is the possibility that innocent people just like him are suffering in intensive labor camps because they don’t have that same
Anderton Called Wally Page and asked if he could come to the monkey block. She demonstrates out to him the “Precog” who produced the Minority Report: Jerry. Jerry’s vision brought the discussion to a conclusion where it looked like that he would kill Kaplan as datum and produced a differing the report where he doesn’t commit the murder. Lisa enters and offers to help him escape.
Your fate is not based upon anyone’s actions other than your own. Both Wes Moore’s experienced a circumstance in which they required a second chance. The decision of how to use that second chance is the vital part to succeeding, for the difficult part learning how to “distinguish between second chances and last chances” (Moore 67). Wes— The author— was given a second chance after joining military school. Although it was originally an unfortunate turn of events, Wes quickly learned the opportunities that surrounded him were to fade rapidly if he did not improve his way of life. This experience is an example of how a single person can set themselves up for success or failure based upon their individual
... middle of paper ... ... As they become aware of this, they realize that the consequences of their decisions have an extensive impact on themselves and those around them. Works Cited: Bloxham, L., Stortz, M., & LaHurd, C. (2003).
Every mind, every thought, everyone revolves around ideas. Many may have a deeper and more complex idea while others vaguely neglect it. Each decision being made has a cause to its effect. In the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, demonstrates the idea of consequences in one’s responsibility, however only under certain circumstances. Similarly, in Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, Spinoza explicates when we live freely, we develop our natural abilities however one must accept the consequences of such abilities accordingly.
In a person’s life, one must overcome obstacles that have the potential to either negatively or positively impact their future. Whether it is a serious obstacle, such as being involved with drugs, or a minor obstacle, such as procrastinating an important essay for the night before it is due, the choices people make can influence the way they live their lives. In Wes Moore’s inspiring non-fiction book, The Other Wes Moore, two boys with the same name start off living a few blocks away from one another, but turn out to be completely different individuals. At first, they were both troublemakers, getting in trouble with the law. However, as time progressed, the author, Wes Moore, became a Rhodes scholar and quite successful, while the other Wes Moore was sentenced to life in prison. The difference between these two men was the surrounding influences that shaped their growth as people. In a person’s growth, the most important factors are a positive role model in a positive environment because a positive role model will provide the path to success and will aid that person in achieving prosperity.
A man is running late to work one day when he passes by a homeless person asking for help. This man and many others usually consider this particular man to be generous, but since he is late, he ignores the homeless person and continues on his way. One can assume that if he had the time, he would have helped. Does that matter, though, seeing as in that situation, he did not in fact help? Scenarios like this supports Lee Ross and Richard Nisbett’s idea that it is the situation that influences a person’s behavior, not he or she’s individual conscience. Although a person’s individual conscience could play a part in how one behaves in a given scenario, ultimately, the “situational variable” has more impact on the actions of the person than he or she’s morals.
We make choices every day, from waking to sleeping our day is composed of choices and the results of these choices. These choices help to shape us to who we are and want to be. But, these results may not be foreseen and may be adverse or favorable depending on the situation. Topics and events in our history ranging from the literacy of common man to unnecessary gun violence were a result of un-foreseen consequences. Our world’s history has been shaped by these consequences forming the world to where we are today.
What society needs to know is that there are moments in people’s lives that will cause them to react in unnecessary ways. In reality, ...
The control balance theory was developed by Charles Tittle, a sociologist and professor at North Carolina State University. The control balance theory states that control ratio imbalances are associated with deviance (Tittle, 2004). These imbalances lead to an imbalance between motivation towards deviance and constraints on behavior. The result in deviance is less likely in situations where controls exercised and controls experienced are equal because the form of deviance that would be used to gain more control would be offset by control to void the potential gain (Tittle, 2004). This makes deviant behavior more likely in situations where control surpluses and control deficits are evident and an individual acts out to gain more control or deal with feelings of humiliation and worthlessness. The theory assumes that all people can be characterized globally and situational by control ratios which represent the total amount of control they can exercise, relative to the control in which they are subject to have (Tittle, 2004). When the control balance is upset, the probability that one will engage in deviant behavior increases. Accordingly, when the control ratio is balanced, the probability that one will act in line increases (Kwon, 2012). The overall concept of control is an especially important one in the policing occupation, as officers’ roles in maintaining social
...how the reader that everyone is responsible for their actions and in control of their fate.
The fate of a person based in Minority Report is that each person’s future is already predetermined. However, it does not necessary means that one has to just go with the flow and pursue what has been predetermined for them. Being an independent being is filled with surprises; for we can alter the future that was previously predetermined into a much better future one that is continuously evolving.
The battle of who to blame for a person’s actions is a struggled faced every day in the human society. Society effects every element of a human’s life from birth to death; one’s actions are all be determined by society’s role. Mary Shelly warns readers of the role society plays in their everyday lives and how one can be driven to do inhumane actions due to its role in her book Frankenstein. Where a creature is created and then rejected repeatedly by society causing him to lose any human traits he once had; thus, only causing turmoil for those unfortunate enough to cross his path. In her novel Frankenstein Mary Shelley is attempting to warn readers how society can widely effect ones up bringing; through the role of society rejecting the creatures
The research of the degree of crime has been a great extent of what the scholars has focused on as far as the nature male wrongdoing. The outcomes of male-based reviews have been developed to connect all guilty parties whether they are male or female in the system. These male-based interventions have generally been just used to react to young girls and women’s’ misconduct on the premise of the possibility that a ‘one-fits-all model’ of misconduct, discipline, hypothesis, and involvement works for both sexual orientations. Scholars in the twentieth and 21st centuries, however, have tested the idea that female guilty parties are the same as male criminals, that the two carry out acts of crime for similar reasons and is only fair to be dealt with
If we are to be truly innocent and humble beings, we must recognize our own innate guilt as human and accept it. If we do not, we will constantly be obsessed by our “state of apparent acquittals”. Kafka, Franz. A. The Trial. Trans.
Complete free exercise of will inhibits individual and societal freedom. According to Mill, one may act as one chooses unless one is inflicting harm onto others. He argues that one is free to behave “according to his own inclination and judgment in things which concern himself” as long as “he refrains from molesting” (64). The problem arises in the freedom allowed to the individual performing the potentially dangerous act. People are often blinded by the situation in which they are in and by their personal motives which drive them to act. Humans, by nature, have faults and vices that are potentially harmful. It is the responsibility of society to anticipate harm, whether to oneself or to others. Once dangerous patterns and habits are recognized it is imperative to anticipate and prevent injury from reoccurring. To allow any individual to be inflicted harm forces citizens to lose tr...