How do you suggest we ascertain beyond reasonable doubt that sex was non-consensual as easily as we can show that car theft was non-consensual?
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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I am. That's why I said it was interesting. I accept that it is probably true. The woman who had the police combing the streets here last year did not name anyone.
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But this is also why I am not committed to 'listen and believe.' I have seen men falsely accused, not even maliciously - one was developing schizophrenia and the other said what she had to to stop her father beating the shit out of her - and even a tiny number of cases is 2 many.
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None of them were charged with false accusations, btw, but one man's life was ruined and he moved to Italy to escape it. Badly beaten up too. It makes me inclined to uphold reasonable doubt rules in my own life.
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I hold "reasonable doubt" rules, too. And "reasonable" is variable. Tell me you have a dog; great, I believe you, whatever. It's likely, no harm done if you're lying... Tell me you were raped, roughly the same thing. Tell me Bill raped you, I'm going to need a bit more...
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Good. Sensible.
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