The fundamental question of Minority Report is central to the theme of justice we've been discussing in classm - is crime necessary for a Just society? On one hand, you've got the dilemma of precrime - are they really guilty if they've never committed the crime, nor actually done it? Or more pertinently, the question of when meditation of a crime becomes as incriminating as committing it. The text seems to suggest that we do need robbers, murderers, even rapists to have justice in this world. Though the awful things they do will still continue to pass, when the people are brought to justice, they will be receiving a punishment that actually fits the crime. So a cautionary society, where people are brought up to fear the consequences of their actions, though ineffective in stopping crime, is great when it comes to actually being responsive to true crime. When you prevent crime from ever happening, you really make any action jeopardized in its possibility to criminalize.

The ending of the story seemed like a copout - it justifies murder to show that the system does work? Though I thought the three minority report conclusion was sort of clever, I believe the question above brings the concept of justice into further obscurity - as most good science fiction works do.