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Kurl Malone's avatar

Helen,

After a lifetime of direct experience with my society getting it 100% wrong (wmd, covid, russiagate, and more specifically the metoo era witch hunts) i am very skeptical of Russell Brand as a sexual predator.

I will be happy to take a look at whatever evidence is made available, but there are myriad reasons to be skeptical and almost zero to trust.

I would imagine from the tone of your writing that you would consider this outlook a problem.

I like Russ Brand and will stop liking him if I'm convinced he is a legitimate predator, but the level of evidence needed to convince me has grown to such a level that (barring video / audio) would have to be "beyond a reasonable doubt"

It's almost like someone, somewhere, had the radical idea of "innocent until proven guilty" as a standard of justice where the accusers are inherently at a disadvantage as they need to prove the claims as opposed to the mob mentality you *seem* to be tacitly endorsing...

Love your writing,

Kurl

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Freedom Lover's avatar

Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I mean by that, until the appeal process is exhausted.

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