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That's kind of sidestepping my point. He said two things: 1) There was a rape accusation 2) The accusation was made to discredit Assange My statement that "
by ok_craig 13y ago
That's kind of sidestepping my point. He said two things:
1) There was a rape accusation
2) The accusation was made to discredit Assange
My statement that "the burden of proof is on the person claiming it" is relevant to both parts individually. Neither the rape accusation or the discredit argument have been proved, therefore judgment should be withheld on both. Just because the second is a claim that hasn't been proven, doesn't mean the first is true.
- mortehu 13y agoSo do you, or do you not, believe that there was a rape accusation?
- ok_craig 13y agoYes there was an accusation, and I don't understand your point in asking. Edit: getting pedantic with this but oh well. I guess the language "doesn't mean the first is true" was ambiguous. I did not mean to say that #2 being a claim that hasn't been proven meant that #1 may or may not have happened in the first place, I meant to say that #2 being a claim that hasn't been proved does not mean that the accusation itself, which truly was made, was true.
- DanBC 13y agoI think we agree! Of course Assange is innocent until proven guilty. I find it very annoying when people say the rape accusation is fabricated to smear Assange.