So much Psycho-Pass....

S1:E13

"Today, the world has realized a stable prosperity and achieved the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people... Planning one's life...Obtaining what one desires...When people make choices, no matter what they are, they ask for Sibyl's judgment rather than agonize over it."

"No mistakes are allowed with Sibyl. That's the ideal... If the system is perfect it shouldn't even require humans to operate it."

Is this their version of a utopia? Or at least what they are aiming to achieve. Is an entirely computer-operated society even a utopia at all? Should the humans be involved in the functionality of their society or does that not matter if they don't have to worry about anything (in theory)...

Are the criminals in Psycho-Pass "hardwired to self-destruct?"

Soooo, even the title of this song feels relevant to Psycho-Pass in general as it's all about catching criminals and I'd say that they criminals themselves are pretty unkind... 

This song is specifically for episode three though (goes with my other post, I have a lot of catching up to do (so, sorry for anyone who is actually looking at these)) lyrics in the song like "I've become hostage to my mind" and "dominate, killing of the innocence" go with Yellow-Green snapping and such, though I know the victims aren't entirelyyyyy innocent...

Good Ol' Yellow-Green

I wanted to take a look at episode three of “Psycho-Pass” because of the obvious issues that are presented in the drone factory (obviously there are issues presented in all of the episodes of Psycho-Pass buuuuut ya know…). Good ol’ Yellow-Green is going around killing people with the drones, but nobody suspects him because he is the underdog; he is bullied by other factory workers so that they can take their stress out on him. Which is, in a sense, throwing this one person to the dogs in order to alleviate any strain felt by the other workers. What I find pretty dumb of them to not realize is that all of the bullying and pressure put on Yellow-Green is going to/ is causing him to have repressed emotions of hatred towards his coworkers. And all of those negative emotions held in are going to raise his Psycho-Pass until he feels the need to alleviate his own pressure back onto them. What’s also interesting about this episode is how Akane starts to trust in the enforcer’s judgments more. She has had her doubts of the Sybil System from the beginning and couldn’t quite bring herself to believe in how the enforcers were operating on their own knowledge. I think that it says a lot about Akane’s character and judgment abilities when she is willing to trust the latent criminals to bring Yellow-Green to justice. She knows that they will be able to find a way to determine if he is the actual murderer or not, and that the law must, sometimes, be skirted around (aka Kogani’s interesting methods of information retrieval) in order to find the truth and enforce the rules.

Minority Report

That's So Raven!!

Obviously Raven sees the future, but this particular gif makes me think of Precrime's attitude toward the criminals because of the visions of the precogs. It doesn't matter if they did what they might have been about to do - they just have to deal with it.

My Minority Report Report

While watching this movie, I found the individual versus community question to be in my head a lot. What's interesting is that the Precrime justice system is being advertised as a protective tool for both the community as a whole (the kids at the ending of the advertisement), as well as for the individual (all of the people saying where they would have been stabbed or whatever). However, the consequences of Precrime directly affect the individual; when a pre-criminal is caught and haloed, they are put into an eternal sleep-like state that seems far from what would be in a utopic setting. This punishment also calls into question the morality of this system and where it falls on the spectrum of being autonomous versus having more laws and governance. Of course, both of these versus are from the “Plotting Utopia” chart—I find myself going back to this with Minority Report as I find it hard to place in the quadrants. While the government is very adamant about preventing/catching murder, they don’t seem to care much about other crimes being committed. So, there could be a fair amount of autonomy in the society, considering other laws aren’t focused on in the movie, but it could just be that the government is just overlooking crimes that don’t involve homicide… And then, again, with the happiness of the individual versus of the community—where does Minority Report’s D.C. society fall of this scale? I want to say somewhere in the middle since the community is being protected at the cost of some individuals (but there’s still debate in my head over that as well). Basically, this movie poses some strong moral questions and has some serious punishment laws... Where would you place it in the plot?