Thoughtcrime refers to criminal thoughts or desires against a governing ideology, without an accompanying harmful act. In George Orwell's novel "1984", the government employs thoughtcrime as a means of social control, torturing those who think dissident thoughts until they conform to the party's ideology. The government destroys words that could be used to express anti-party ideas, aiming to eliminate subversive thoughts by limiting language.

1. Thoughtcrime:
the destruction of words

2. Thoughtcrime:
The destruction of words
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What is thoughtcrime mainly?
− North Korea?
− Christianity?
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What is thoughtcrime in the film/novel “1984“?
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The destruction of words

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What is thoughtcrime mainly?
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The possibility of conviction without any act
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It´s the wish to commit a crime
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In North Korea there is a law against thoughtcrime
(today)
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In Christianity “The Tenth Commandment“ says:
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„Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.“

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Thoughtcrime in “1984“
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Winston Smith: "Thoughtcrime does not entail
death: thoughtcrime is death."
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The people may not think against the system
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If anyone commits a thoughtcrime, he will be
tortured till he thinks what the system wants

5. The destruction of words
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The destruction of words is the method to work
with thoughtcrime
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No words against the system = no thoughts
against it

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