XPost: alt.psychology, alt.fan.unabomber, alt.mindcontrol   
   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
   I'm surprised nobody's replied to message.  I thought the concept was very   
   important: the alleged ability to determine how a person thinks by the way   
   he blinks his eyes.   
      
   Imagine a society where you don't actually have to commit any sort of crime   
   to be locked up in a cage, where the government has the power to imprison   
   you simply because some goddamn mindreading machine suggests that you MIGHT   
   commit a crime in the future.  There is no trial, because you are not really   
   accused of a crime and the state is not trying to punish you but "treat"   
   you because it says you are sick because Dr. Phil's fucking machine sez so.   
      
   The legal implications of this are enormous and I believe it amounts to a   
   form of unconstitutional self-incrimination.  It's even worse than self-   
   incrimination, because it forces the subject to bare his very soul to a   
   goddamn machine and be judged by its criteria.  I personally don't believe   
   the technology works and it is no more scientific than using a dowsing rod   
   or dunking stool to detect witches, but courts could be persuaded that it   
   works (or else the judge is subjected to it), and that will be the end of   
   America's constitutional rights.   
      
      
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   "In Oceania there is no law.  Thoughts and actions which, when detected,   
   mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges,   
   arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as   
   punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely   
   the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time   
   in the future."   
   -- 1984   
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