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The other problem with these allegations is that they supposedly occurred when he was a minor, which raises a plethora of issues from the fact that people change to the greater legal protections minors receive because the system recognizes that minors aren't fully culpable for their actions and change over time. That's not counting that memory can be highly unreliable over long spans of time.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Golden Road posted...

It shouldn't scare you unless you've done something bad.

In a perfect world, you would be correct.

A shame we don't actually live in that world.

This so hard. We live in an age where baseless accusations routinely result in significant hardship for men, whether it's a girl claiming that her sex partners raped her because she wants her crush to be sympathetic, an entire lacrosse team being accused of rape, etc. That's in addition the Billie Jeans of the world making allegations against celebs.

darkknight109 posted...

Can you name me a powerful political figure who was brought down by sexual assault allegations that were later found to be spurious?

Moving the goalposts, since he talks about it scaring him as an individual. And while the rich and powerful are fine no matter what, it's the people at *lower* positions -- bosses, managers, and even college students -- who actually have their lives ruined.

darkknight109 posted...

had an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting that conclusion, even if there was never a conclusive answer (Donald Trump

...based on what, the number of accusations? I guess I missed when the plural form of "accusation" became "evidence." (And I was also going to highlight the Roy Moore thing, but I haven't followed it as closely although, last I checked, the most serious of allegations (groping a 14 y/o in a car, etc) was still a he-said-she-said.)
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