Thought Crimes

The Documentary “Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop.” was based on thought crime, which means that a person has thoughts which are unacceptable which are considered against laws. A person can be punished for having such thoughts. This documentary was entirely based on that where this person has such thought where he always fantasied about kidnapping and eating his girlfriend and his other college friends. This kind of people who have such thoughts might actually commit crimes.

Based on the documentary I can say that people who ever have such kind of thoughts should be punished or put behind bars, but I won't say that after they commit crime, but once when proper evidence is found or some kind of attempted is made to do such crime. On the other hand, I won't say that we should also actually wait for that person to make an attempt, but right after that person shares such kind of thoughts or after anyone finds out
To this for a minute I thought that like even some kind of action should be taken against writers, but then I realized it that it is unethical to say that writers are going to do something similar of what they write because this writers do not write such kind of scenes by keeping a particular person in mind they just do it for sake of doing it so we can never count this kind of persons under potential crimes or anything.

This Documentary does relate to the material presented in class like this documentary does show the a part of mens rea, cyber crime where he illegally accessed the police database to lookup the information about the victims. It also related to murder and homicide if he had committed crime because he wanted to kill his girlfriend and eat