Do men understand rape?

[politicman]

95. My standards are the satndards our justice systems expects..

Exactly, he wasn't a rapist and that dead girl wasn't his rape victim until 12 jurors said so, that's the way our justice system works, innocent until proven guilty.

Its odd to say this, but yes he would have raped and killed that little girl several decades ago, but because there was no way of proving he was the one that did it until DNA evidence as available, then up until the 12 jurors believed the DNA evidence, it could have been anyone that raped and murdered that poor little girl.


I think that guy is complete scum and should rot in jail for the rest of his life, but the moment I let my emotions cloud my judgments on who is guilty and who is not, then that's the moment that the next time I serve on a jury I wont be able to give the defendant the beyond reasonable doubt threshold.


Look, allegations to me are just that, allegations, they could be true or could not be true, but I wont start labelling and convicting every man every time a woman alleges he raped her simply because the allegations have a possibility of being true.

The only way that could ever happen is if we knew for certain that every woman that makes a rape allegation is completely truthful, and we already know that that will never be the case as there people in the world who can easily tell lies (both men and women) and no one deserves to be believed merely because they make an allegation which can ruin someone else's life.