Pretty sure the term was invented in Minority Report as a legal gray area where it’s in many way immoral to prevent crime by arresting people before they commit anything. It’s literally a real life example of the Torment Nexus meme.
Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
What even is “Political Pre-Crime”??
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I think I read about it in a book once, where it was called “wrongthink”.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
This is starting to sound double plus un good.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 13 hours ago
See that’s not how you spell it in “wrongthink”
It’s ++nogood
Because no is really un, they are pronounced identically and you didn’t know that because you aren’t as cool as Prez