Comparing Minority Report & The Crucible

inority Report we see betrayal in its highest degree by the director of precrime, Lamar Burgess. Lamar betrays John Anderton by setting him up for a future murder because John, closing in on a previous murder mystery, held information that would incriminate Lamar for the murder of a woman who is actually the mother of one of the precogs-- a person who was born with the ability to see future crimes before they happen and is essential to the precrime's survival. Lamar's reasoning in sacrificing the woman he killed as well as John's life is that he would be able to save even more lives because he would have access to the precogs and his precrime invention would thrive. This reasoning goes to prove that society's reason for betrayal is that it is a necessary evil in order to help the rest of humanity involved. The main flaw
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