The movie(Minority Report) play on the idea of determinism being true. For instance, the system of predicting murders must hold that actions are determined by outside forces that can be measured. However, the determinist might have a problem. If all actions are determined, then it doesn’t follow that actions could be controllable and therefore punishable? But they do in fact punish the perpetrators with a halo device that removes them from existence almost. How might a determinist respond?
