It has occurred to me that if there is a conspiracy against the public by a group of hopefuls or addicts that attacks people with brain computer interfaces, that there may be greater nasty opportunities for those people to gain pride or money.
You joined a group assuming that the group would value itself in the select corporate or gang-like structure that gives the group advantage over others. You may have joined for the reasons of voyeurism or porn addiction, hazy notions of what 'power' can get you in a competitive society, or the outlet for money you wouldn't usually get according to your skill set.
If the gang gained momentum based on its starting notions of criminality and made compromises of danger with all new members, then they may have experienced doubt or fear in the beginning. I'm sure they assured you that you can never be caught and the appeal of non-retaliated-against aggression appealed to you for what you conceived of as your personal growth. In the process of the computer mapping your brain you must admit that the possibility of mind control could have been used against you. An addiction of adrenaline routing could have been snuck in or a cleverly maintained signal that blocks or encourages a region of the brain. Was it your choice to be a criminal?
You could have questioned their use of this technology. The amount of time that you allowed them to use it without law enforcement taking it from them made them powerful. You made them powerful. If you are willing to supress or torture detractors towards their criminal use of this potential vehicle for human enhancement then once again, you are allowing them power.
It occurs to me that no matter who they were or claim to be, law enforcement will always agree that the suppression of a portion of the populace is bad. You may stop the next Marie Curie from emerging by the sphere of tyrannical influences being exerted by a few. Torture is wrong, murder by the type of person that craves petty power is bad. And mind control will always be used by people with not enough insight to successfully conceive of good plans or negotiate towards the good of all successfully. Wouldn't it be better to use the technology to create geniuses? Cooperation is the best strategy and geniuses will see that.
What crimes that you collude with, commit, or refuse to stop are indelibly etched into your mind? You can't erase memories, only route away from them. In the way law enforcement is heading, they will adopt mind reading. For the safety of all, I, as an innocent citizen will consent to it to stop a crime. They have already caught people with it. What has your group done even in a compartmentalized nature? Observe nuclear launch codes, sell secrets, wield a biological weapon against politicians? What are you risking?
It took maybe 20 years to do all your illegal experiments to arrive at your knowledge. How has the world changed for the better? How are the criminals using it? We could have been immortal in that time. Medicine is discovering that all the bodies natural healing properties can be controlled by signal emulation. In that time could you have saved your own parents or loved ones? Your leaders stopped that. How many millions of lives could have been saved if your group revealed their research or even premises? There didn't have to be illegal experiments. You could be living in a Utopia of healthy geniuses now with the world planning glorious endeavors. But you thought violence was the greatest joy...
I know you may be a mind-controlled addict so I'm not going to appeal to your fear or compassion. There is an opportunity you should look into that should, by your cultivated nature, break your mind control or at least expose it.
If there is a missing link in patents that allows your technology to examine and manipulate the human mind and body at a distance then law enforcement wont believe this is happening. However, as far as wealth commodities go, there is nothing more expensive that every human being on the planet would be willing to by more than medicine. Pharmaceuticals have to get rare biological constructs from plants and animals to make drugs that end up harming an organ as it cures one. Brain-computer interfaces is a program that communicates with the body. This is cheaply made medicine for great profit.
You don't even have to create the programs. Just patent the technology or ideas that every creator of the programs will use. Go to your local criminal teacher, take pictures of all the machine parts that go into the remote monitoring and manipulation of the human body. Borrow or buy some programs. Go to the patent office and say you've come up with the idea. Then evangelize the use for medicine, not criminal behavior.
Criminals are a rare, dead end commodity limited to the stingy wealthy, the hand-tied government auxiliaries, or the desperate poor. They did nothing to make the world potentialized to a paradise on earth. Their use amounted to scared machinations, ill-thought out revolutions, and the power plays of the insecure. Imagine a criminal trying to be an immortal and having to hide from everyone and cut of their face every 12 years. Hiding from cameras, satellites, laying low in third world countries.. If one of them is caught and interrogated you all get caught as law enforcement pressures you to tell them what the signal they've triangulated to you that you sent into another persons brain is doing? That person gives up mind reading and law enforcement discovers the identity of every criminal in every persons mind all down the chain. One mind reveals more, then those peoples minds reveal more..
Now imagine being a legitimate immortal with all of humanity that wishes it. Looking forward to the fruits of genius humanity, choosing their time of death in heroism when they've 'seen it all'. Medicine is the true money maker. If you evangelize this medicine you replace all drugs. Everyone clamors to use your patents to make medicine. You get a piece of everyone's income on earth. Forget millions of dollars think trillions of dollars! 1,000 million, 1,000 billion! So much money you could try to plan becoming a singular god with your own army and off world base! (I don't think it would work but that is what the more ambitious of you dream of).
Squeamish about how you didn't create it? No problem. Research patents or hire a patent lawyer. So many patents have happened for loathsome reasons I'm sure they'll take your claim. How about those other competing criminals? Turn them in! Give law enforcement advanced mind reading and all of them will be found as they travel from person to person reading minds. Make sure you get a deal of immunity to prosecution first. You'll be the last one standing with no criminal status. No one else in the criminal syndicate can own a patent! Would you reward Mengele with a patent? For law enforcement, a terrorist organization with the secrets to save millions of lives turned in is like money to them! They're moral!
If you find you are a criminal with no guts to take advantage of this loophole in your criminal organization than you didn't become a criminal for the right reason.
May the best perp win!
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