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Scary rant.

I'd hate to think that accusations become so commonplace that we no longer think of such a horrible accusation as being unusual. That would give cover to those actually guilty, and leave the innocent always accused.

Sadly, I can't say you are wrong.

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rape has an unusual position in crime - conviction rates for murder are at 90% or more, for rape they rarely get above 1/3 - and that's for rapes reported which is assumed to be a lot lot lower than committed.

Yet imagine if all those rapes were reported -over social media. We would still hav this anamolous conviction rate and yet a sea of accusations.

Not sure what part of that is worse really.

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