Why your childhood memories may not actually have happened.

[Igel]

49. Yes.

Children's memories may be spot on, colored by later influences, or wholly fictitious.

Pedophiles pretty much always lie and often are repeat offenders.

That doesn't provide a solution to the problem of how to find justice for the actual victims without punishing the falsely accused.

If you want to avoid punishing the falsely accused, the result is that you have to let a lot of pedophiles walk away unpunished.

If you want to avoid having the guilty walk free, you wind up punishing a reasonable number of innocent people.

The 3rd way is to find additional evidence: people who remember evidence from a single incident, records of physical evidence from the time, additional victims, evidence that the pedophile retained. All this does is confirm the childhood memories. Yes, it says we doubt a single witness' testimony. Yes, we usually doubt a single witness' testimony, so it's not like that's a new thing.

There is no 4th way.

Oddly, I wound up arguing this a good 24 hours before I realized what and who the entire discussion was about.