Comment on Kevin Spacey cleared of sexually assaulting four men

b000urns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He didn't get off on a technicality, a jury found him not guilty.

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• ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there any actual evidence, he actually did all those things (without consent)?

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is there ever any actual evidence? Isn’t that precisely why sexual predators are able to get away with it so frequently?

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    • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Without evidence, there’s nothing. It would mean, you, me and anyone else can be charged for “sexual predatory behavior” and prisoned for years. While we did not do anything at all.

      Not-guilty until proven is a thing.

      Also do you realize what this does to someone who’s not guilty? Wrecked career, wrecked mental health and reputation to the ground.

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      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There's a lot of room between a court not having enough evidence to convict someone of a crime and that person having done zero wrongdoing, and society in general does a very bad job at navigating that grey space.

        Being cleared of charges doesn't mean someone isn't a bad person. At the same time, simply being accused doesn't mean that someone is a bad person. There's worlds of nuance here, but this is the internet - the place where nuance goes to die - so I don't bother having any expectations at this point.

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  • hungry_freaks_daddy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you can’t tell by how he looks, acts, the things he says, I’ve got nothin for ya.

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    • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah so basically, there’s not. What you are saying is just your opinion based on zero evidence.

      Certainly you might not like someone or have same vague idea how the person might be. But that does not mean anything without evidence.

      With your mindset, everyone would be able to sue each other and everyone would be guilty. Because he that particular person “acts suspicious, says odd things and he looks weird!”

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes exactly. I am a weak and shallow human being who likes his movies and TV shows and hates having to think twice about bad people doing bad things. But everyone seems to consider that my position is unacceptable so I will go back to hating Spacey like everyone else because you know, I am weak and shallow.

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  • Inanna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Based

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