In 2002 the movie Minority Report came out. The theme of the movie was a future where police could arrest people for future actions. It may have been a movie then, but it has come to Hong Kong recently.

The police arrested someone for planning to protest against the government. We do not know if this person was actually going to do it or not. But to be arrested for planning? This should not be a crime for no crime was committed.

Planning and doing are to separate things. Planning is just thinking about an action. An action where you can exercise your mind and even stop yourself from doing an action. Doing, of course, is the actual putting into motion what you have planned.

For Catholics, this would be what is and isn’t a sin. Thinking of a sin may not be a sin. Yes, you shouldn’t be thinking of it but that is another subject. A sin is when you actually do something. That is a big difference.

Thinking and doing are two separate actions for sin. And it should be the same for a possible crime. But it appears the Hong Kong government sees thinking and doing as the same and that should send shivers across the land because people can now be arrested for thinking against the government.