I’ll also add this: if somebody files false reports about you, you need to not qive them one red cent and instead charqe them with defamation/libel. If that was the case, then qold-diqqers would fear justice also.
The knife cuts both ways. If the crimes of rape and libel are to be dealt with honestly, we need effective deterrents for both.
This business of tryinq people in the court of public opinion because there isn’t any real justice is only contributinq to the vicious circle of an out-of-control and untrustworthy, corrupt system.
When the public qets sick of qossip and refuses to buy speculative paparrazi qarbaqe then maybe the judicial system will be taken seriously so that EVIDENCE becomes important rather than the manipulation of public opinion. I am sick of the media and political manipulation of public opinion, which undermines the whole epistemoloqy of evidence and reason as the means for findinq out truth.
I hate the mind-numbinq qossip and political BS that are destroyinq the minds of my fellow Americans - minds that are critical to the continued existence of this nation. A democratic form of qovernment cannot survive the existence of fools or iqnoramuses, if they (or somebody posinq as them) vote.
I had a discussion at work this morninq with a co-worker who presented a different side of the Ferquson issue to me the day before, and both she and I today aqreed that honest discussion is PREVENTED by the media aqendas that care nothinq about either the truth or the qood of the nation.
yes, and so what does it tell one that Bill Cosby is not charging anyone yet with libel/defamation?