How do we fix the way rape is handled legally?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > How do we fix the way rape is handled legally?

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

If everyone's favourite poster Discendo Vox was here he'd observe that it's nothing like morally preferable to allow 100 guilty people to go free to secure one innocent person from incarceration. The modern point of origin is from Blackstone:

quote:

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"

There has to be a balance, and the law makes an rear end of itself at a ratio of 100-1.

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Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

Rakosi posted:

The rule of law means you cannot abide by one margin of error on one crime, and a lesser margin of error for another. If it is deemed the margin of error on capital offences is completely unacceptable (which it is, because innocent people were executed), it has to be the same for all other offences.

Actually this isn't necessarily troubling to the concept of the rule of law at all.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2016 19:58

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