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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Side effect? Isn't the whole point of the system we're talking about to punish rapists and protect women from them? If innocent men are punished, that's not a side effect—that's a failure of the system to do what it's supposed to be doing. An occasional failure may be unavoidable, but surely the goal should be to try and avoid failures.
In any justice system, there is always the chance that innocent people will be punished, but a competent justice system does what it can to minimize that risk. What you have suggested, as I understand, would increase that risk.
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No, a competent justice system balances the risk of innocent people being punished against the risk of letting the guilty go without consequences. Minimizing the chance that innocent people will be punished is simple...don't have a justice system at all.