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Topic	This guy pretty much summarizes my entire opinion on this Kavanaugh thing
Coffeebeanz 10/07/18 5:55:48 PM #1:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qxA37Jnz0" data-time=" The problem is that everyone wants their own truth. There's no "my truth" and "your truth", there is THE truth. And right now, we don't know what THE truth is. If you don't have enough information to determine the truth with certainty, you don't have enough information to decide who's actually right and who's wrong. You should be just as willing to accept that Ford is telling the truth as you are that Kavanaugh is innocent, and vice versa. But here's the segue where he really hits it In the era of social media, the truth doesn't even matter. A social media accusation completely nukes your reputation from orbit, and you have absolutely no time to respond or be vindicated unless you're exceptionally lucky (like the officer in the Sherita Dixon-Cole case). And even he is still tailed by people who think it's all a conspiracy. Even IF the obvious reality is that you're innocent, the sheer volume of "outraged" and "offended" people will destroy your life through pure, unadulterated social media-fueled vigilante justice. So the argument "it's not a trial", which has been used not just in Kavanaugh's case but in many other accusations as well, has no real meaning. The trial doesn't matter if the execution already happened. This Kavanaugh thing is just a tiny piece of a much bigger, much more disturbing problem with America. That the truth doesn't matter any more. Feelings and hashtags are all that are needed to completely wreck an individual - fair or not. It's vitally important that we stop this vigilante justice, and stop excusing its use whenever we find it politically expedient. It's never appropriate, under any context. And likewise, deliberately using it for political gain is absolutely, unquestionably unacceptable. When people retort with "why don't you believe women?" or "why are you defending a rapist?" they are ostensibly saying that accused individuals should no longer be afforded the most basic legal decency of presumed innocence. That's been a cornerstone of legal code since Hammurabi's Code. It's one of the most important rights we have. --- Physician [Internal Medicine] <cite>Coffeebeanz posted [p:910132292] in This guy p... [t:77076837]...</cite> <quote> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qxA37Jnz0" data-time=" The problem is that everyone wants their own truth. There's no "my truth" and "your truth", there is THE truth. And right now, we don't know what THE truth is. If you don't have enough information to determine the truth with certainty, you don't have enough information to decide who's actually right and who's wrong. You should be just as willing to accept that Ford is telling the truth as you are that Kavanaugh is innocent, and vice versa. But here's the segue where he really hits it In the era of social media, the truth doesn't even matter. A social media accusation completely nukes your reputation from orbit, and you have absolutely no time to respond or be vindicated unless you're exceptionally lucky (like the officer in the Sherita Dixon-Cole case). And even he is still tailed by people who think it's all a conspiracy. Even IF the obvious reality is that you're innocent, the sheer volume of "outraged" and "offended" people will destroy your life through pure, unadulterated social media-fueled vigilante justice. So the argument "it's not a trial", which has been used not just in Kavanaugh's case but in many other accusations as well, has no real meaning. The trial doesn't matter if the execution already happened. This Kavanaugh thing is just a tiny piece of a much bigger, much more disturbing problem with America. That the truth doesn't matter any more. Feelings and hashtags are all that are needed to completely wreck an individual - fair or not. It's vitally important that we stop this vigilante justice, and stop excusing its use whenever we find it politically expedient. It's never appropriate, under any context. And likewise, deliberately using it for political gain is absolutely, unquestionably unacceptable. When people retort with "why don't you believe women?" or "why are you defending a rapist?" they are ostensibly saying that accused individuals should no longer be afforded the most basic legal decency of presumed innocence. That's been a cornerstone of legal code since Hammurabi's Code. It's one of the most important rights we have. --- Physician [Internal Medicine]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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