I am explicitly and specifically denying the effects you're dreaming up will happen. I'm not saying they won't matter, I'm saying they won't be. And they won't be, because your position is based on a complete misunderstanding of the case and a failure to consider the actual facts of what's happening.
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Jury orders blogger to pay $8.4 million to ex-Army colonel she accused of rape
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I am explicitly and specifically denying the effects you're dreaming up will happen. I'm not saying they won't matter, I'm saying they won't be. And they won't be, because your position is based on a complete misunderstanding of the case and a failure to consider the actual facts of what's happening.
How many people do you think are actually going to read this story? How many do you think are going to remember it 6 months from now?
How do you know that the lesson that the people who do read it, remember it, and then experience sexual assault will be that they better not press charges because of this, and not take it to mean that crazy people who make up shit whose story can't be backed up by evidence will get sued for defamation?
It really seems like you are vastly overestimating the reach of this story and underestimating the intelligence of people who will read and remember it.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Pre appeals punitive awards are always outrageous. No idea why jurors love making it rain.
You mean how false rape accusations are pretty common?
Yeah that totally doesn't happen at all.
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Ok, please explain to me why $8.4 million is a fine verdict based on the facts of this entire case and not simply what is in the article.
When someone scores a big verdict, that news travels fast in the legal world. Lawyers will know about it.
Auto_aim1
MeisaMcCaffrey
To go bankrupt? The blogger lost.
Punitive damages will be capped at $350k by law and the other $2 million will be from lost wages and other lost compensation. That's perfectly fine.
Comrade Crunch
Member
It's extremely shitty if this torpedoes his chances at Brigadier General, thats a gigantic deal, way bigger than any amount of money.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I was always under the impression you could only sue people for huge amounts of money if they're worth a huge amount of money.
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Lawsuits are a joke in the US anyway. I don't think this particular blogger was worth millions.
Major murder cases and pedophilia accusations are basically the only things I think that are in the same ballpark.
Guess what? That shit happens, with real fucking consequences.
That's not what we were talking about but whatever.
Hang on, what you just asked me wasn't what we were talking about. Whether or not the jury's decision about damages is fair or reasonable isn't the same thing as not accepting their finding of the facts or dissuading women from accusing the men who abuse them. You moved that goalpost, not me.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Because rape is one of the very few crimes where we strive to take the accuser and their testimony seriously, and where that testimony may be the only real evidence that a crime was committed. So when testimony is shown to be maliciously false it does create more doubt, because it carried more weight in the first place.
Sounds like my ex-wife. Found god, got baptized, was sleeping with her "secret" boyfriend again 2 weeks later.
Crazy woman, and any negative thing in her life was always someone else's fault.