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your circular logic translates to “the fact that these allegations even bothered to come out is evidence that they may be false”
by mygo 9y ago
your circular logic translates to “the fact that these allegations even bothered to come out is evidence that they may be false”
- loup-vaillant 9y agoRead more charitably, will you? Fame doesn't affect all accusations the same way. I believe the probability of false accusations raise faster with fame than the probability of true accusation (which is mostly dependent on actual guilt). There's even the possibility that the probability of true accusations lowers as fame raises, leaving more room for the false ones.
- mercer 9y agoWhile I don't necessarily disagree, I do wonder if this is actually true. In my experience lots of people have a weird tendency to bend over backwards to defend the famous (with Chris Brown, Jimmy Saville, and various Hollywood stars as particularly terrible examples). Perhaps Donald Trump too.
- loup-vaillant 9y agoFame probably attracts detraction and defence.
- mygo 9y agoI believe the probability of people coming to your defense raises faster with fame.
- loup-vaillant 9y agoPossibly. But I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about the probabilities of accusations (true and false, respectively).