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Revelation34 posted...

You mean nobody innocent has ever been found guilty of a crime?

Do you not understand that there's a difference between "these allegations are credible" and "the target of these allegations is guilty of the alleged crime"?

ReturnOfFa posted...

yes, there are false convictions of various crimes. what're some of the most common examples of these that are statistically significant? usually black men on false drug charges, among many other minor crimes that other folks walk away from with lesser charges.

Indeed. Influential, well-off white men charged with domestic violence aren't tremendously likely to be falsely convicted on those charges, statistically speaking. That doesn't mean a false conviction isn't possible, but the fact that he can afford his own lawyer already puts him head and shoulders above the vast majority of those that do ultimately find themselves falsely convicted for DV (to say nothing of the power it gives him to sue for defamation if his reputation is damaged by charges that turn out to be false), so it's not a particularly significant risk in this case.

ForteEXE3850 posted...

The Bayonetta voice actor thing just happened, people have learned nothing (not that I expected anyone to).

I also want to come back to this, because I think you're grossly overstating the harm that came from Taylor's nonsense. When her allegations first came out, plenty of people sided with her, yes (for good reason: they were credible allegations consistent with typical industry shenanigans), and Bayonetta 3's sales might have suffered for it if nothing had changed (at least, as much as any game's sales suffer over such boycotts, since that rarely makes a meaningful difference). Most of those people, however, responded to subsequent reports showing that she lied by changing their minds, which is what sensible people do when presented with new information that invalidates what they previously believed, so any potential loss of sales was negated. A handful of people continued to hate on Platinum for doing nothing out of the ordinary ("wrong" is a more complex judgement, since there's loads of room to criticize industry standards for VA compensation, but Platinum did at least follow those standards and therefore shouldn't be singled out), because they refused to update their opinions with new information, but they're a tiny minority that likely had no significant impact on sales or the studio's reputation.

Jumping to conclusions can be harmful in two scenarios: If harm is immediately caused, and if those that have jumped refuse to change their minds when it turns out their first impression was wrong. If neither of those conditions are true, then jumping to the initial conclusions did not cause harm. You've fixated on "look at all these people that spent a few days being wrong" as though that's some kind of terrible evil, but that's just life, dude. You can't put off every decision you're ever faced with until you have a comprehensive understanding of the situation. Sometimes, you just have to base your decision off of the best information available to you and make corrections later if it turns out that was a mistake. All any of us can do is try to minimize the total harm caused by our decision-making processes.