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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
I’d say that perspective is the fundamental failing. It isn’t about being on either side. That is like cheering for guilt or innocence during a trial, as opposed to wanting justice, wherever that lands.
It isn’t about supporting women or men, rapists or false accusers. It’s about being strongly in favour of due process, and not calling people names for it. Otherwise the entire justice system can be accused of simplistic, emotional claims of misogyny.
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I doubt very much that perspective is THE fundamental failing when you’re responding to a post saying only 10% of actual rapes result in convictions with the position that people should put blind faith in the justice system.
If picking a side is a failure of some kind, being severely under-critical of the justice system is as well, and is no less guilty of being overly simplistic. I think we can all agree that the public “siding” with the victim or the accused in a way that has no influence on the legal repercussions is much less severe a problem than rapists going free, no? Do you see how suggesting the opposite is… maybe… a reason for unfavourable characterizations? I’m just going to assume you don’t actually believe that and you were having a simplistic, emotional response.
I think some people think emotion and intellect are mutually exclusive. Just because you lack any emotional response to something, doesn’t mean you’re having an intellectual response to it.