6. One way to think about this is to compare what we are fairly certain of historically with what has been proven in court.
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7. Stalin & Mao were never convicted of crimes against humanity in a court. Yet I'm confident in describing them as mass murderers.
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8. Very few (if any) slave-owners were ever convicted in court of raping their slaves. Yet we have good reason to think it happened.
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9. The reason we can reasonably assume many slave-owners did rape their slaves; from testimony of slaves & from genetic evidence.
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10. To pick an example close to the current controversy, the writer Arthur Koestler was never convicted of rape in court.
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11. Yet we have the testimony of several women that Koestler raped them. That testimony can't be dismissed in any evaluation of Koestler.
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12. Based on my own reading of the case against Koestler, I'm willing to say he was a rapist. Some biographers agree, others hesitate.
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13. If Cosby is charged, I want him in court to get the full benefit of reasonable doubt everyone charged with a crime should get.
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14. Given the fact Cosby has money, I really don't have any worry that he'll get the full protection of American law.
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15. Wrongful convictions do happen all the time, but very rarely to individuals in Cosby's tax bracket.
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16. But for those of us who aren't in criminal justice system or on a jury, we're allowed to make our own judgement on what's been presented
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17. In cases not before court like Cosby, epistemological modesty has to extend to both accused and accusers.
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18. If we can't say with certainty that Cosby is guilty, we can't say with certainty that his accusers are lying.
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