Anybody read Mark Steyn's article in last week's MacLean's? Dealt with this "problem" from a very predictable viewpoint (if you know Steyn).
I see this as similar to the concept of being innocent until proven guilty. We as a society believe that it is better to let an arbitrarily large number of guilty criminals go free to save the freedom of one innocent person. This conception is a fundamental part of any free country. The connection to the HRC should be obvious, but I will state it explicitly: It is better to allow an arbitrarily large number of frivolous complaints to be lodged and be given their due process than to deny even one legitimate complaint. Sounds pretty fundamental to me.
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"For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan
Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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