Chauvin Murder Trial

[Irreligious Atheist]

What stance? That you can't convict without sufficient evidence? Are you ok with innocent people being locked up, and then raped in jail? Locking people up without sufficient evidence is Taliban style justice, although they're more likely to just kill the person or cut off their hands. That's what happened to Emmett Till. There are already far too many innocent people locked up as it is, and minorities are likely to suffer the most if you make it so that you don't have to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt. And no, I don't see why my stance would change if I were raped, and if my stance did change, that would likely be because I was being too emotional and irrational because of personal experience.

So, rape victims are too emotional and irrational?

Sure, they can be. If they want people convicted without sufficient evidence, I'd call that irrational. Remember that actor that said he wanted to do something to a black guy because his friend or family member or whoever was raped by a black man? Traumatic experiences like that can lead to irrational thinking. I certainly don't blame rape victims for having irrational thoughts. I can only imagine how such an experience would screw with your mind and what pain it would cause. I can certainly understand rape victims wanting all rapists to be punished, but that's not possible without throwing thousands of innocent people under the bus at the same time.

Very often, the people who are impacted by big crimes, are the least credible people in deciding what should happen. Many of the family members who've had a sibling or child or whoever killed, would love to see the perp tortured and slowly killed. The West is better than that.