Innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt for the purposes of entry into the penal system helps to defend our democracy from falling to whims and desire for punishment at the hands of tyrants...
And in cases where there is insufficient evidence to successfully prosecute a sexual predator, or where a wealth of riches permits a predator to plead to escape any real consequences for their actions because lawyers harass, threaten, or smear their victims,
And the social contract permits those who are immoral - or amoral - to be avoided. To be shunned. To lose their social status, because not only
Perhaps they were directly complicit in abuse, perhaps they just tolerated it.
The social contract demands it of anyone with a social conscience.
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