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Mandatory Precognitive Vision at Coming-of-Age

Description

At age 17, every citizen receives a single vision of their future, which is used to sort them into social roles, but one person's vision shows them committing murder, creating a crisis of determinism vs. free will.

Real-World Relevance

Models pre-crime scenarios: what if we could predict behavior and punish it in advance? Directly relevant to predictive policing, social credit scoring, and the ethics of acting on probabilistic futures.

Classification

Domains: Time Travel and Temporal MechanicsGovernance and Political SystemsEthics and Philosophy of Technology

Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyEthical dilemma

Outcomes: DystopianCautionary

Tags: predictive-sortingmandatory-visionpre-crimedeterminism

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