I have left the rational universe and entered into the The Circus of the Absurd
What point are you guys arguing?
1. Some of you seem to be suggesting that its understandable that the original victim would identify an innocent man as her atacker given the crime, and that somehow the nature of the crime makes it not . . excusable, but . . .well you have a certain visceral sympathy for her putting an innocent man away.
News Flash: Her alleged rape, and his doing 22 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit don't intersect except at the point she faslely identified him.
2. Where does my joking comment: "I think she owes him a freebie?" correlate to: She deserves to be raped?
How can freely offering a freebie, by definition, be rape at all?
How does the statement extrapolate into any other case out there, unless that person also falsely accused someone and that accusation resulted in jail time?
How does the statement extrapolate to any women deserving to be sexualy assaulted?
And I guess i should offer a small apology to all women that the statement would would apply to:
I am truly sorry that people that were both sexually assaulted and also accused the wrong person of the assault, resulting in an innocent person going to jail for decades, were offended by my joking comment that the accuser offer a free sexual experience to the person after they were finally released for being innocent of the original accusation.
That apology should pretty much cover the entire debate
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Originally posted by kappaloo
I think the big issue is still this idea of the Freebie, James claimed this woman owes the newly-innocent man.
Yes, the woman made a very bad mistake.
Yes, there could be a civil/criminal lawsuit brought against her.
But she does not ever, even for a minute deserve to be raped. A freebie, regardless of what you call it, is rape. No one deserves to be sexually assulted, and that is at least what I find most offensive in this whole thing.
To neglect the insensitivity of that statement on a public board where I know we have women who have been sexually assulted is outragous.
Talk about how she deserves to be punished if you must, but pull yourselves above the bar of decency that ever victim of sexual assault deserves.
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