Overgeeked,
I suppose that's a good point. Still, if the technology existed to be able to "read a person's mind", it could be used for other applications. It would almost certainly end up as an interrogation tool for law enforcement.
I don't think that's such a good idea...
What is worse? Being kept alive and water boarded for information, or having your mind scanned into as computer and taken out back and shot because they have all the information you had.