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Testimony: Are we being hypocritical?
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RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical?
(November 19, 2017 at 11:36 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(November 19, 2017 at 10:51 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: "That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."

~Benjamin Franklin

This is true.  The practical application of this, though, is that it will be virtually impossible to charge a man for rape or sexual assault.  Even if semen is found inside a woman's body, he says, "Well, she said yes," and then it's 1:1 hearsay.

There's another case: that of political corruption.  When the powers that be deliberately work to cover up evidence, then what is to be done when the occasional whistle-blower has something to say about the conduct of, say, Trump?

What you say has merit, but I'd far rather reach for the higher goal and fall short than start locking people up based on nothing more than "the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act" (the minimum of evidence for treason where no admission of guilt is obtained as established by the constitution).
Thief and assassin for hire. Member in good standing of the Rogues Guild.
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Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 10:20 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Aoi Magi - November 19, 2017 at 10:34 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Mister Agenda - November 19, 2017 at 11:18 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by possibletarian - November 19, 2017 at 12:36 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LastPoet - November 19, 2017 at 12:37 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Edwardo Piet - November 19, 2017 at 12:55 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by vorlon13 - November 19, 2017 at 12:56 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Catholic_Lady - November 19, 2017 at 1:00 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Mister Agenda - November 20, 2017 at 12:26 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 20, 2017 at 12:32 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 20, 2017 at 10:15 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Minimalist - November 20, 2017 at 11:19 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Fireball - November 20, 2017 at 11:10 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by SteveII - November 20, 2017 at 5:54 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Mister Agenda - November 21, 2017 at 11:06 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Whateverist - November 19, 2017 at 1:08 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Edwardo Piet - November 19, 2017 at 1:12 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Minimalist - November 19, 2017 at 1:27 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 1:39 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Aoi Magi - November 19, 2017 at 1:52 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 2:08 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Edwardo Piet - November 19, 2017 at 3:04 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 10:27 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 10:47 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by downbeatplumb - November 19, 2017 at 1:46 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by chimp3 - November 19, 2017 at 1:47 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 1:52 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Minimalist - November 19, 2017 at 2:08 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 10:49 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 19, 2017 at 11:04 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Minimalist - November 19, 2017 at 2:19 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by brewer - November 19, 2017 at 2:37 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 2:49 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by brewer - November 19, 2017 at 3:12 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Minimalist - November 19, 2017 at 2:54 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Edwardo Piet - November 19, 2017 at 3:15 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by vorlon13 - November 19, 2017 at 3:54 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 19, 2017 at 4:05 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LastPoet - November 19, 2017 at 4:25 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Minimalist - November 19, 2017 at 5:06 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by MysticKnight - November 19, 2017 at 9:11 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 10:33 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 19, 2017 at 10:46 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Fireball - November 19, 2017 at 11:23 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Whateverist - November 19, 2017 at 11:31 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Neo-Scholastic - November 20, 2017 at 11:25 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Whateverist - November 19, 2017 at 11:23 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 19, 2017 at 11:35 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Edwardo Piet - November 20, 2017 at 4:17 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 19, 2017 at 6:06 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 6:33 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 10:05 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 19, 2017 at 10:51 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by bennyboy - November 19, 2017 at 11:36 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 19, 2017 at 11:53 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by bennyboy - November 20, 2017 at 12:32 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 20, 2017 at 12:38 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Minimalist - November 19, 2017 at 9:15 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by MysticKnight - November 19, 2017 at 9:21 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Minimalist - November 19, 2017 at 10:14 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Amarok - November 19, 2017 at 10:30 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Amarok - November 19, 2017 at 11:00 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 11:07 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 19, 2017 at 11:20 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 19, 2017 at 11:22 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Ravenshire - November 19, 2017 at 11:27 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Amarok - November 19, 2017 at 11:27 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Amarok - November 19, 2017 at 11:37 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Fireball - November 19, 2017 at 11:52 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Whateverist - November 20, 2017 at 12:01 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Amarok - November 20, 2017 at 12:05 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Whateverist - November 20, 2017 at 9:09 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by paulpablo - November 20, 2017 at 12:21 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Grandizer - November 20, 2017 at 9:35 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Whateverist - November 20, 2017 at 12:33 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Edwardo Piet - November 20, 2017 at 6:00 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Amarok - November 20, 2017 at 7:09 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Edwardo Piet - November 21, 2017 at 2:39 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Amarok - November 20, 2017 at 11:02 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by WinterHold - November 21, 2017 at 8:28 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by LadyForCamus - November 21, 2017 at 10:35 am
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by WinterHold - November 21, 2017 at 12:25 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by WinterHold - November 21, 2017 at 3:20 pm
RE: Testimony: Are we being hypocritical? - by Martian Mermaid - November 22, 2017 at 11:37 pm

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