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Many have assumed that thought police "standards and practices" would include imagining what someone "might be thinking" in cases where actual evidence is lacking.
Motive and intent "alone" -- though it be "much imagined" -- is all that is required in that case.
Two lawyers discussing the idea that an innocent person and a guilty person will both speak as if they are doing nothing wrong on a phone call -- is all it takes to convict the person of one's preference in such a thought-police atmosphere.
But is the thought-police state really what we want??
Motive and intent "alone" -- though it be "much imagined" -- is all that is required in that case.
Two lawyers discussing the idea that an innocent person and a guilty person will both speak as if they are doing nothing wrong on a phone call -- is all it takes to convict the person of one's preference in such a thought-police atmosphere.
But is the thought-police state really what we want??