Theft. If I say "my car was stolen", nobody asks "sure you didn't just give it away?". Nobody asks what I was wearing. Nobody says "maybe you teased the thief" or "boys will be boys". Nobody says prisoners should have their car stolen, but "hope he gets raped" is common.
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You keep conflating social and legal outcomes. Police being more diligent in investigating reports (and not leaving rape kits to rot in store rooms for decades...) would help the legal side. But society doesn't operate on "beyond a reasonable doubt". If you tell me my employee>
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No, it operates on rumour and no smoke without fire. We can try to do better tho.
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Often it does. But that's the price you pay for being able to function in a world where you need to act on imperfect information. And what, precisely, do you think needs to be done "better"? Are you suggesting we be more skeptical of people claiming they were robbed?
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No but be sceptical of someone claiming a certain individual robbed them without evidence of this. Want a list of the things I've been accused of?
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You should assume that I am in the pay of the far-right, that I am a child-abuser, that I am a psychopath, that I lost someone their job through lies, that I practice mind-control and that I am cheating on my husband and am a violent alcoholic who sends hate mail urging suicide
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You'll note I made the same distinction - between how readily we might accept "I was raped" and "Bill raped me". Interestingly, though, false accusations of rape appear more likely to be vague ("some guy in the alley") than specific... http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1077801210387748 …pic.twitter.com/lycAnS5f8j
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Interesting. Although the three friends I had who made false accusations were all specific tho only one of them was malicious. (She is not my friend any more)
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Wouldn't be mine, either! Nobody needs that sort of person in their life. But you are surely above the anecdotal fallacy...
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