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This is straight up he said she said. If what she says is in fact true, my heart goes out to her. But she has provided no evidence and no description of the in

by Aqueous 12y ago

This is straight up he said she said. If what she says is in fact true, my heart goes out to her. But she has provided no evidence and no description of the incident that allegedly occurred. And Max has insisted that there was never any sexual intercourse involved and that everything that happened was consensual. So someone is lying, and we can't really get to the bottom of who it is unless there is more evidence/witnesses. There's got to a better way to handle this. I'm sorry if you think that we should believe a claim merely because it was made, but that's why our legal system is set up the way it is. Because you have to have evidence. Yes, our courts suck at dealing at this. But this is unquestionably worse.

arrrg 12y ago
We do have evidence, her testimony and his. False accusations are rare, so it is more likely that he raped her. That’s how I will personally treat this. On balance it’s somewhat more likely that he raped her than that he was falsely accused. Courts can’t and shouldn’t decide that way – but I sure as hell will. I will use all the available evidence to come to a reasonable conclusion. Since the evidence is not that great (as it nearly always is in cases of rape) I will not instigate others to take action, but I will personally never buy any products from his company and I have no desire to ever met him in whatever setting. That’s about it. I don’t have any power over him (neither do many other people) so this is really quite harmless for him. The supposed grave consequences of these accusations just don’t really exist most of the time.
- tzs 12y ago
  > False accusations are rare, so it is more likely that he raped her That's not correct. Studies of false accusations have found roughly 5-8% are false. However, most of these studies are looking at accusations that are made to police reasonably soon after the alleged event and are investigated, and to count as "false" there must be strong proof that the accuser is lying or mistaken, not merely a lack of proof that the accusation is true. Note that this means these studies undercount false accusations. I haven't seen any studies on the false rate for accusations years after the alleged event.

by Aqueous 12y ago

arrrg 12y ago

We do have evidence, her testimony and his. False accusations are rare, so it is more likely that he raped her. That’s how I will personally treat this. On balance it’s somewhat more likely that he raped her than that he was falsely accused. Courts can’t and shouldn’t decide that way – but I sure as hell will. I will use all the available evidence to come to a reasonable conclusion. Since the evidence is not that great (as it nearly always is in cases of rape) I will not instigate others to take action, but I will personally never buy any products from his company and I have no desire to ever met him in whatever setting. That’s about it. I don’t have any power over him (neither do many other people) so this is really quite harmless for him. The supposed grave consequences of these accusations just don’t really exist most of the time.

tzs 12y ago
> False accusations are rare, so it is more likely that he raped her That's not correct. Studies of false accusations have found roughly 5-8% are false. However, most of these studies are looking at accusations that are made to police reasonably soon after the alleged event and are investigated, and to count as "false" there must be strong proof that the accuser is lying or mistaken, not merely a lack of proof that the accusation is true. Note that this means these studies undercount false accusations. I haven't seen any studies on the false rate for accusations years after the alleged event.