Premature Consideration

I predict a time when a mechanism will be able to tell when people are highly raged at great distance. When a person becomes enraged, a call will be automatically made to authorities. Eventually, those authorities will have the right to enter residence and other private areas based solely on this information.

Not long after this detection becomes prevalent and is touted as saving lives, another power will be handed to authorities that has been around even longer than the detection. The ability to remotely stun people. At this point, people will get very angry and will simply convulse and drop to the floor before they can act upon the emotion.

There are tons of moral questions. If someone is scared for their life, they might drop to the floor and a psychopathic murder, who doesn't get upset or angry when they kill, to have their way without much effort before the authorities turned up.

If this ability exists, hoe many people would want it after their loved ones were slaughtered by some mad man with a two by four? "Won't someone think of the children?!" "My <insert relative>'s death could have been prevented ..."

From law enforcement point of view, this is a very touchy thought. Yet another way cops are damned if they do and damned if they don't. The whole thing sounds like Minority Report. Technology is pretty close to getting this one I bet. There is a want to tell what someone's intentions are before they commit an act these days. There are new products that are electric noses that will identify smells. I've read that people give off pheromones when they are in many different moods. I'm telling you it is all fitting together.