I believe there's a happy spot between "believe the victim/take accusations seriously" and the principle of "innocent until proven guilty". What if accusations were seriously investigated and only once guilt was proven beyond reasonable doubt do we mete out punishment?
https://twitter.com/YOLO_AEMCS/status/1343931577827528705
Everybody has a right to justice and that means taking due process before deciding on guilt or lack thereof. When it comes to crimes like rape emotions should be kept at bay. Making the accusations public before they can be properly investigated can be fatal to a case.
I know it's difficult for victims to come out but both the accuser and the accused equally deserve justice and believing either over the other is animalistic jungle justice. We can't respond to everyone who cries wolf without proper verification. But we should always verify
Having said that, due to the difficulty of proving rape (it's actually insanely difficult), I believe rape should have the same penalty as murder. Life imprisonment. That's the best deterrent I can think of
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