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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19. What we can say is that we don't know final truth, but the sheer number of accusations, their similarity, etc. has to be taken seriously
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20. There are accusations against Cosby. They have to be taken seriously and can't be dismissed out of hand. That's where we are right now.
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21. Okay, I'm going to go a bit further in my claims: I don't think it is ever the job of the courts to discover the truth of a case
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22. What are the courts doing? It's not searching for absolute truth, but rather for coming up with legal decision the system can live with.
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@morgan_joel It's what happens and it's mostly good but we shouldn't glorify it as the be all and end all of knowledge.
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