>How would you feel if after being mugged by a close friend, others would tell you to let justice work its way (for 6 months) and stay really close with said fr

>How would you feel if after being mugged by a close friend, others would tell you to let justice work its way (for 6 months) and stay really close with said friend ? If it is a matter of one person's word against another's, why would they believe me over the other person? I do not expect that I am any more or less trustworthy than the average person. Talking about "victims" is presumptuous. A complainant becomes a victim when the crime is proved. Someone isn't automatically a victim just because they say they are. Everyone would love to 'believe victims' but that would require being able to tell precisely who is and who isn't actually a victim... At which point there's nothing to "believe", because you _know_ one way or the other.