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Do you think OJ Simpson is innocent? Would you want your daughter or sister to marry him?

The are different standards for a reason. Society is perfectly capable of being aware that someone is a giant dickbag without there being enough evidence to justify using the power of the state to remove their freedom and incarcerate them. Those are two extraordinarily different things and you know it.

To suggest otherwise is to imply that the government is a perfect arbiter of dispute that we should all just blindly accept. Something tells me you wouldn’t be so keen on that stance when it worked against your interests

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The government performing arbitration is a power that society has vested in them. The solution to a flawed system is to fix the system, not vigilantism.

The lack of trust in the judiciary is a failure of government and a failure of society.

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I don’t believe OJ Simpson is innocent, even though not convicted in a court of law. Sorry, not sorry

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Yeah, but the whole system is made by people who benefit from it’s flaws, which means that it’s near impossible to fix it without big societal changes. And while we are working on those (we are working on those, right?) we should remember that our current system is flawed.
It is absolutely a failure of society, yes.

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Then why isn’t there a revolt? Mass protests? Revolution?

The justice system is literally the foundation of the social contract in society. If it’s flawed and corrupt, society as a whole falls apart. In fact, it should.

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I think we need to recognise the moral panic of the situation too. People are out there looking to cancel others, others are out to use the moment for financial gain, and then there is the legitimate ones too. We dont know which they are and for the most part, the judicial system is only OK at separating them.

If you can smear someone and that’s it their life is over, no matter the truth of it, then what justice is that?

What’s the truth here… not very many people know, clearly.

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I think we could use a little more moral panic about the actual number of people who are actually raped every year and maybe worry a little less about your proposed miniscule hypothetical

Also, learn to read: https://people.com/tv/kevin-spacey-controversy-timeline/

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To replay your own argument: something tells me you wouldn’t be so keen on that if you were the one being accused of a crime you had not committed.

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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.

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I recommend watching “The People vs OJ Simpson” on this. It doesn’t really get into guilty vs not guilty, but just showcases just how complicated things got in that case.

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As soon as they started arguing over the hair samples I started understanding how complicated that case was.

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