[dfwgator]

How many others were even worse than Cosby?

While I accept the fact that Cosby is guilty and deserves whatever punishment is coming to him, my question is, why just him?

[miserare]

That is the stupidest defense ever! Yeah, Ma...I threw a cat off a bridge, but my friends threw three cats off a bridge!

[Albion Wilde]

Does the fact that many get away with crimes somehow erase the wrongdoing of the ones who are prosecuted? Should society stop prosecuting crimes if the success rate is only 50%? (A number I just pulled out of the air.)

Surely your mother must have said to you at some point, "I don't care if everyone else is doing it. You are not going to do it, and that's just the way it is in OUR family."

This case has the misfortune of being one of the first ones in a trend of women actually bringing charges against a greatly more powerful man and being believed enough for charges to be prosecuted. Yes, I know there are false accusations. But there are also, as you point out, many who get away with it and ruin women's careers and emotional health. So we can't have it both ways. Either stealthily drugging and raping a non-consenting person is a crime punishable by law, or it isn't.