(October 20, 2015 at 9:41 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: I'm definitely in favor of the concept of affirmative consent, as I think the harm it is designed to prevent is among the most egregious wrongs of our present society; however, I fear how our justice system may immediately interpret it in the most broad and harsh way possible, as they do with most laws, and immediately start doing harm with it.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I ( and the creator of the video) think. Affirmative consent is good in theory, but if you try to legislate it, then...
Quote:Even proponents of these laws admit that they establish a presumption of guilt and strip the accused of due process protections. When asked how an innocent student could prove affirmative consent under the statute, Democratic assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal said, “Your guess is as good as mine.” Ezra Klein, editor-in-chief of Vox, admits that under affirmative consent “too much counts as sexual assault” and that innocent students will be branded as rapists. Yet he supports it anyway because “men need to feel a cold spike of fear.”
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
