monocle_layton on 21 December 2017
| bananaking21 said: "2. Harsh sentences for blatantly false accusations. Someone falls into a gray boundary? The charges should simply be cleared. A person deliberately lies? They should be given a fine and jail time that would have been placed on the accused." in a perfect world this would be a good thing. but we arent in a perfect world, and i feel that this would go ahead and discourage people who suffered sexual abuse to come out and talk about their bad experiences. |
But why?
Lets say person X is raped by Y. If my idea was implemented and it was proven to not be rape, then it would simply be tossed out. An example might be where both parties got extremely wasted and be considered legal (albeit slightly immoral) intercourse
now if the person simply lies and has evidence proving they had intention to do so, then they’d be given a punishment. Otherwise, I believe this makes rape a more serious subject where people don’t automatically judge the accuser or accused
