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Originally Posted by MysticCat
How exactly are they relevant? Are you saying that biology and sex drive/sexual motivation trump personal responsibility or excuse ignoring the difference between right and wrong? Or that boys will be boys?
When I took the bar exam, my application had to list every instance of school discipline I had ever received from high school on. I also had to provide transcripts from college. I can assure you that had I been kicked out of college, I would have had to explain why, and I would not have been able to sit for the bar exam until the expulsion had been fully explained and the bar was satisfied of my moral fitness. To say that being expelled from college for a felony I didn't commit would have had a significant impact on my ability to sit for the bar exam and earn a living is something of an understatement.
Obviously being expelled from college isn't the same as being sent to jail, but it is more like a criminal penalty than a civil one. The loser in a civil case generally pays money damages to the winner.
Like I said, I understand the challenges and the real consequences of not holding rapists accountable. But I can't support a remedy to that problem that ignores the real consequences of declaring innocent people guilty. That's simply trading one form of injustice for another form of injustice.
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I didn't say universities should declare innocent people guilty. I said they should have a lower standard of evidence than "beyond a reasonable doubt." Personally, I don't think not being able to go to law school is worse than rape. And what's your alternative? To just keep ignoring rape?
Let's say I catch a student cheating on an exam. Should the university not discipline them because it's their word against mine?
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