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Re: A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV

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>due to the nature of my employment I am no longer employed This is an overlooked problem. Lack of employment protection. Nobody should be able to be fired for being arrested. That doesn't mean they committed a crime. It's not their fault they can't show up to work. There should be employment protection for that. In my country, even schoolteachers being investigated for sexual abuse aren't fired. They aren't allowed…

If they're paid while the justice is being worked out and their trial takes years, that is potentially a burden that the employer can't bear. Also, you're describing a situation where bad behavior becomes a protected class as soon as you get arrested for it. In my high school, a teacher was caught raping one of his teenage students. He was fired for it. In your opinion, if he had been arrested, he should have had his…

Paid by the government, so the burden isn't directly on the employer.

Yes, a rapist should be protected before his trial is over. If you're so sure he's guilty, why even have a trial? Just do summary justice. There's a reason we have due process and countries like Russia and China that don't are seen as human rights violators.

Re: A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV

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Hooray for people having their entire lives destroyed because someone decided they 'know' something which might not even be true. There are plenty of cases of trials over rape or assault allegations which were entirely fictitious. This isn't even really the point being discussed. It's more that someone could be fired for an arrest over a an offence which has absolutely nothing to do with their job.

> Hooray for people having their entire lives destroyed because someone decided they 'know' something which might not even be true. People are not entitled to due process to keep their jobs. Where do you draw the line? Should it be illegal to fire someone for failing a drug test (which are not 100% reliable) until a jury finds them guilty? > There are plenty of cases of trials over rape or assault allegations which w…

"only 2-10% of rape accusations (Prof Ford's lawyer says she believes this was attempted rape) are proven to be fake"

Not "very very few" in this context at all. It's extremely high!

Due process doesn't have to be 100% infallible but it should certainly be resistant to hostile corruption like those 2-10% of rape accusations.

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