Hypothetically, if I said "firefax murdered an underage prostitute and then sexually violated the underage prostitute's corpse in 2018 and was never caught, I witnessed it happen and tried to report it but the police refused to even open an investigation, firefax is a dangerous predator and should not be trusted", and you lost your job because of that, should you be the one with the burden to prove that never happened?

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umanwizard 5 days ago | parent [-]

We are talking about what is the law in a specific country, not what “should” be the law. Also, the bizarrely graphic description is out of place here.

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anonym29 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's a visceral thought experiment, intended to instill a sense of bewilderment at what being falsely accused actually feels like to someone who seems to offer a normative assertion that privileges bad-faith accusers, without actually causing any of the harm of a real false accusation. That is topically relevant and experientially informative while being restrained enough to not be actually harmful.

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fatata123 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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