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How the Appeal to Force and the Ad Hominem are codified into law.
Whenever a dystopian, totalitarian government tries to control the speech and actions of its citizens, it'll label dissent and criticism as Thoughtcrime, and quell Thoughtcrime by every means possible. The clever trick here, since in most stories the government has no access to these thoughts, is that it trains the oppressed to oppress themselves via internalizing what is seen as disapproved thought. As well, propaganda exhorts people to turn in their friends and family.
If a reason is ever given at all, apart from the obvious, Thoughtcrime can be explained as "intrusive thoughts," and their repression leads to "a happier society".
It is nearly impossible to remove Thoughtcrime policies once enacted. The definition tends to expand until whistleblowing is illegal—after all, only a communist/fascist/atheist/religious fanatic etc. would be deceptive enough to claim that our glorious and beneficent regime could possibly make errors, suffer from wishful thinking, or be corrupt.
Of course, by inherent nature, trying to not think what they forbid you to think about will always fail - and expect one or two citizens to be trapped by this thought process and then get captured by the Secret Police (or worse) for their "trouble". Taken to extremes, this may lead to everyone getting punished. Punishment includes hard labor in a prison camp, torture up to the point of a forced confession and a Kangaroo Court show trial, and execution.
Naturally, when no one is allowed to guard the guards, the guards abuse their power left, right and center. Add to that the fact that no person is capable of getting everything right, and even the best-intentioned crimethink laws end up convincing people that their purpose is to keep the masses from knowing too much.
Overlaps with Culture Police. Compare with The Heretic, for a religious equivalent. Related to The Evils of Free Will. In more nuanced stories, some of these guys sincerely believe they're using Brainwashing for the Greater Good. For others, it's just business as usual. As a means of propaganda, if the methods combating Thoughtcrime are known to the public, the government (or their corporate benefactors) might attempt to paint it in a lighter vein by calling them Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.
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Touched on in the aptly named Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Thought Criminal". The criminal-of-the-week is a man who has constructed a sex torture dungeon across the street from a playground, fantasizes about using it, and has all the signs of becoming a rapist and murderer of children. However, he hasn't actually done anything yet. The episode then revolves around arresting a man for something he might act on (and he almost certainly will), or letting him walk and taking the chance of future victims. The jury finds him not guilty, possibly with this trope in mind.
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Low: In the Underwater City Voldin, optimism is a capital crime.
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Sluggy Freelance's 4U City enforced mandatory happiness with involuntary drugging. And mandatory efficiency with mandatory drugging. And so on. The alternative was to be thrown down a judgement chute.
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David Byrne: "The Dream Police" takes place in a setting where police officers and courts can charge and convict someone for dreaming the wrong things.
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Anderson: Psi-Division: Played for dark laughs when Anderson is driving her Lawmaster before suddenly stopping to beat up several confused perps who only looked in her direction. She tells control to pick them up for "insulting a Judge and resisting arrest".
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Paranoia. Under The Computer's rule, Happiness Is Mandatory. Anyone who isn't happy is a traitor and can be punished, such as by being required to take drugs that make you happy.
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Nemesis the Warlock: Under Torquemada's rule over Termight, it is illegal to even think of opposing him, and his Terminators scan the planet day and night to look for thought offenders. As seen above in the page image, Purity's father was sent to the vaporization vats for committing thoughtcrime in his sleep.
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Reaper follows the example of Christianity under Religion in showing one of the escapees from Hell being someone whose only sin was having sinful thoughts. The main character outright questions the idea that someone can be condemned to eternal torment for merely thinking sinfully but never acting on it.
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In an episode of Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko is desperately looking for a place to park his car. He finds an empty spot with a sign that says "Don't even think about parking here." He does think about it for a second, but a policeman sees him and gives him a ticket for it.
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After he acquires Brainiac technology in the bad ending of Injustice 2, Injustice vs. Masters of the Universe reveals that Superman has expanded his totalitarian activities by arresting and jailing those who have criminal thoughts.
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In the short story "Harrison Bergeron", being smarter than another person is outlawed, and smart people must wear devices to disrupt their thoughts lest they take advantage of others with their intelligence (naturally, the Handicapper General is very intelligent, and free of this impediment to do her duties).
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Minority Report: Most of the "crimes" which the Precrime Division stops seem to be this. Suspects are caught in the attempt to commit a murder at times, but many don't even get that far. In the latter case, an ordinary charge of attempted murder could be made. For most though, their only "crime" is just wanting to commit a murder, but not actually doing so. They're all detained without trial regardless. Becomes outright dystopian as the convicts, rather than being regularly imprisoned or executed, are tortured with footage of the precognition every waking moment, all to ensure they keep the criminal thoughts that got them convicted in the first place.
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2000 AD:
Anderson: Psi-Division: Played for dark laughs when Anderson is driving her Lawmaster before suddenly stopping to beat up several confused perps who only looked in her direction. She tells control to pick them up for "insulting a Judge and resisting arrest".
Nemesis the Warlock: Under Torquemada's rule over Termight, it is illegal to even think of opposing him, and his Terminators scan the planet day and night to look for thought offenders. As seen above in the page image, Purity's father was sent to the vaporization vats for committing thoughtcrime in his sleep.
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The Punisher 2099: When Dr. Doom puts the Punisher in charge of the police force, he starts prosecuting people for having criminal impulses.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender has the higher-ups of Ba Sing Se brainwashing everyone who dares to mention that there's a century-long war going on in the whole world outside the walls. The resident Lovable Rogue had this inflicted upon him, which led to his death.
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The L Word: Tasha believes even thinking of cheating is cheating. Later it comes back on her when she's attracted to Jamie, as her girlfriend Alice notes.
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Equilibrium takes this to an even more disturbing conclusion: "Sense Offense" or emotion crime. Their leader extolls "the revolutionary concept of the hate crime." Dubbing the "hate" the important part of the "crime" essentially makes this entire trope Not So Crazy Anymore.
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THX 1138, a Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque story of a dystopian state where worker drones are forced to take emotion-numbing pills.
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Class of '09: Vivienne, Tayo's wife, is arrested by the FBI in 2034 as she's written a book and associated with students that both have anti-AI views. The AI views them as a possible epicenter of a plot to destroy it. Under its system, simply having thoughts in that direction is a crime, even if they're not actually acted on. She's released when the AI is later shut down.
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Zardoz: The Eternals are a society of immortal humans who spend much of their time performing "second level meditation". Those that project "negative" auras are referred to as "renegades", summarily punished by being aged into senility since no Eternal can die.
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Fate/Grand Order: The third Lostbelt is one where Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, achieved immortality and conquered the world. He did achieve world peace, but only because the humans living there are kept illiterate, have no concept of family, and aren't allowed to venture outside of their villages. If any person shows signs of "Confucianism", which is to say learning how to read, making art that doesn't worship the emperor, or leaving their village to explore, Qin Shi Huang's response is a Colony Drop that wipes out their entire village to make sure they didn't spread their ideas around.
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Some scriptures of The Bible point out that thinking of a sin is just as bad as doing it in God's eyes. For example, a literal reading of the commandment "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" would indicate that the proscription is not merely against the act of adultery, but the very thought or feeling of envy. Indeed, the Book of Matthew in The Four Gospels states that a man who lusts after a woman "hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."
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The Boondocks: At one point, Robert punishes his grandson, Riley, not for thinking about doing something nefarious, but for looking like he was thinking it. Huey calls him out for this Disproportionate Retribution, but it's worth noting that actually Riley was thinking of causing chaos at the time. Robert just had no real proof.
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Victoria sees the titular state forbid the use of any technology that wasn't in general use by the late 1930s, including television, computers, and cars capable of making more than purely local trips. The good people of Victoria attempt to write this into law, to the horror of the heroes who imagine the police state needed to enforce it. Instead, they settle on making it a cultural more, much harder to change, and encouraging people to ostracize, ridicule and abuse their technology-using neighbors.
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The Water Phoenix King: This trope shows how obsessively petty the titular character's god was: after Gurahl purged most of planet Chalt's sinful population with natural disasters and genocide, only the truly pure of heart were left. Except, they had the occasional bad thought, overcame it, and moved on. This still wasn't enough to satisfy Gurahl, who decided the saints also deserved to die for the crime of free thought, and attempted to exterminate all life on Chalt for good.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Our Town, the town of equality founded by Starlight Glimmer, shows frequent usage of this. By the time the Mane Six arrive, the ponies living there are so afraid of Starlight that they willingly subject themselves to brainwashing if they find themselves thinking "unequal" thoughts, lest Starlight find out herself and do something even more horrible to them.
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Doctor Who:
A mundane variant comes from "The Happiness Patrol", in which enforced cheerfulness is the law on the planet Terra Alpha.
In "Time Heist", the Bank of Karabraxos's chief of surveillance is a psychic with the power to detect guilty thoughts, and can pinpoint the nature of those thoughts at close range. Since the Bank of Karabraxos is the government of Karabraxos (and the planet Karabraxos itself), they are legally within 'rights' to Mind Rape those found guilty of having guilty thoughts and incarcerate their families.
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Christian Nation: The US Constitution is supplanted by the Fifty Blessings, religiously-inspired laws, many of which are vague or unenforceable, dealing with such vagaries as coveting. The laws against 'sexual deviancy' are all too clear, and there comes a presumption that any single person above a certain age must be gay.
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Industrial Society and Its Future: One of the things Kaczynski attacks modern leftism over is seeking to rid people of even bad (e.g. racist or sexist) thoughts through education or propaganda, going beyond simply getting equal rights for minorities etc which he agrees with.
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Star Trek: Voyager: In the episode "Random Thoughts", the crew of the Voyager come across a people who are extremely telepathic, so sensitive that any extreme emotions would incite them to act out on those feelings; having violent thoughts is a crime in and of itself. Torres is put on trial for having a brief violent thought when someone bumps into her, and Tuvok's investigation into the planet's culture finds a sort of "violent thoughts" Black Market. Of course, it examines the issue that when something is so taboo, it means their own people are unable to handle it when confronted with the situation.
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Mindjammer: The Core Worlds of the Commonality ban memes like religion, democracy, capitalismnote though they allow Corporacies to run ramp shod over the Periphery, etc. And thanks to the Mindscape they actually can tell what you're thinking, though how they keep memes from spreading when people can upload their memories directly into an interstellar internet is unclear.
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In Babylon 5, the Nightwatch organization was set up to report not just actions, but potentially seditious attitudes (as could be "inferred" from casual remarks and such) among Earth Alliance personnel and citizens. As Earth Alliance slid further into despotism, it is mentioned that the Psi Corps was routinely used by the Clark dictatorship to telepathically scan for supposedly seditious (anti-regime) thoughts.
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In Equestria: A History Revealed, the Lemony Narrator often fears that she is guilty of this, even calling out the "Fallacy Police" in-text. Of course, it is strongly hinted that her paranoia is all just in her mind.
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Fortress (1992): The "unauthorized thought processes", i.e. erotic fantasies. Brennick receives an electronic shock from Zed-10 after it reads his mind during REM sleep.
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In Psycho-Pass, Japan is an isolated country ruled by the Sibyl System, a massive surveillance network that is able to quantify the human mind and anaylse the psychological profile of every single citizen of Japan. This profile is converted into a numerical value, known as a Crime Coefficient. So, if someone has a mental disorder, dissents too much or expresses too much negative emotions, he is either sent to mandatory therapy, or if the Coefficient is high enough and the subject refuses to get treatment, he is declared a "latent criminal" and thus eliminated. Subverted in that the system is composed of the brains of sociopaths, some of whom are Japan's worst criminals; they were selected for their ability to commit abhorrent violence without any sense of conscience, emotion or afterthought.
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 Fallen Empire / int_2f4a50be
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Thoughtcrime
 Going Clear / int_2f4a50be
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Thoughtcrime
 Harrison Bergeron / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Nothing to Envy / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 The Four Gospels / int_2f4a50be
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Thoughtcrime
 The School for Good Mothers / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Utopia 58 / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 ThoughtCrime
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Thoughtcrime
 Batman (1989) (Music) / int_2f4a50be
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Thoughtcrime
 Class of '09 / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Continuum / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Dinosaurs / int_2f4a50be
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Thoughtcrime
 Mindhunter / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Star Trek: Voyager / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 The L Word / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 The Magicians (2016) / int_2f4a50be
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Thoughtcrime
 Transhuman Space (Tabletop Game) / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Evoland 2 (Video Game) / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Watch_Dogs 2 (Video Game) / int_2f4a50be
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Thoughtcrime
 Dragon Mango (Webcomic) / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Joe vs. Elan School (Webcomic) / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime
 Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_310d40de
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Thoughtcrime