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Originally Posted by winders
Why?? Voltaire said it best:
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin said it more dramatically:
“...it is better one hundred guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer..."
If you don’t get that, you are in the wrong country. But you can certainly stay as we allow people that are stupid to stay in the U.S.!
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More personal attacks. Just can't control yourselves can you?
I understand the assumption of innocence. My question is how do you resolve this paradox.
Assume the man is innocent of assault- he didn’t do it.
Assume the woman is innocent of lying - he did it.
As I said, for much of history it was mostly assumed women were guilty of lying when they make an accusation. Fortunately we seem to be moving to an era when the assumption of innocence is more even handed.