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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The people who have made false allegations in the past are exactly the reason we can't just believe every victim that comes forward without proof. They are why we can't have nice things. It's not about the odds and ratios either, the state putting a completely innocent person in jail is a travesty of the system. The travesties of what we do to each other are the realities of living on a planet with other humans, we are terrible to one another regularly. We must do the absolute best we can to support victims of sexual assault...untested rape kits are a fucking abomination for instance and I'd be fine with tar and feathers for whoever let that happen. But we still must stop short of allowing even one innocent person to be put in jail.