San Goku wrote:
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@Cane you might be surprised but women can and have lied about rape allegations. For all we know these women could have been groupies/slots and regretted their actions after and looking for payout opportunities.
I wouldn't be surprised about that, considering I literally acknowledged that fact in my post:
Me wrote: If one could assign a deficiency to the movement that arose following the high profile scandals of Harvey Weinstein(and one certainly could, just look at college campuses) it would be that it emboldened a slew of accusations, some of which exaggerated or outright fabricated, due in no small part to the narrative that women are constantly being preyed upon and that they are forever locked in an "Abused-abuser" cycle.
I'm not arguing that every accusation is 100% true( I can't know that for certain) only that if it is true(for arguments sake) the "Advice" DM is proffering would do little to obviate the risk, and that also I believe his reasoning to be fallacious in that it generalizes the motivations of women into a broad category of opportunistic recklessness.
San Goku wrote:
Throughout Bill Cosby career he always been an example, he deserves the benefit of the doubt that he's innocent, courts say he's innocent.
He was given the benefit of the doubt by bent of legal "Presumption of innocence". The courts (rightly) ruled that he was not provided a fair trial thus he is innocent by default, but he was not acquitted. As I have argued in previous pages, the immutability of a jurisprudential technicality is only a feather in the cap of a fair process, not an actual determination and I'm not going to consider prosecutorial fuck-upery as tangible evidence.
San Goku wrote:
His only crime is living a Rockstar lifestyle behind closed doors and portraying the American dad image. If we want to bash and castrate him for that then we may as well come full circle and lean in and say no sex before marriage like good Christian upbringing.
You're right, this is all just a witch hunt and his innocence is clearly incontrovertible and beyond contestation.