Danny Witwer: But it's not the future if you stop it isn't that a fundamental paradox?
John Anderton: Yes, it is. You're talking about pre-determination which happens all the time. (He rolls a ball off of a table.) Why did you catch that?
Witwer: Because it was going to fall.
Anderton: You're certain?
Witwer: Yeah.
Anderton: But it didn't fall. You caught it. The fact that you prevented it from happening does not change the fact that is was going to happen.
-Minority Report
The 2002 Steven Spielberg film Minority Report centers around a futuristic police unit specializing in preventing murder which is foreseen by three unique human beings known as the pre-cognitives. These pre-cogs see the future and "tell" the officers of the murder through a series of images. The members of the pre-crime unit, as it is called, then prevent this murder from ever occurring.
The fundamental piece of this system of causality lies in the fact that an event is......
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