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    Again, not really comparable.

    He is not someone like the guy framed by all the Reddit imbecilic sluths after the Boston marathon bombings, nor is he like Christopher Jefferies, accused by the media of murdering one of his tenants, just because he’s a bit eccentric.

    The guy was caught in a hotel room with children in an area known for sex tourism & he chose to bolt the country after his arrest.

    It’s not like it’s an farcical comedy where a series of events transpired and his trousers fell down just as the police entered the room.

    If you don’t want your name released after being arrested in a hotel with local children entirely unrelated to you, then maybe don’t invite local children up to your hotel and be getting arrested.

    Like I said previously, I find it incredibly fucking easy not to be a child raping paedophile. It’s so easy that very little thought goes into it so I don’t have to deal with the consequences of even it being inferred despite no evidence of any crime having taken place.

    So much so that I have zero fucking empathy for anyone that is.

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      Not comparable

      It’s a matter of principle, pick any of hundreds of examples if you want a comparison

      Again, not comparable

      Some people

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        I’m not the one defending paedophiles.

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          You are attacking civilized people who are trying to tell you that a lynching crowd is not the society.

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            So where’s the lynching crowd aside from in all your imaginations?

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            Y’know, it’s fucking crazy how an innocent Black man’ll get slabbed out by pigs and scores of hordes upon hordes of redditor crackers will all in unison “well, he must’ve done something to deserve it”, “he was no angel”, “he had a drug charge 15 years ago so that makes him free game to outright murder in the street” but as soon as it’s a cracker pedophile so much as getting their name publicized, y’all out here “pwease no lynch mob guise 😢😢😢😢”.

            You peckerwoods sicken me.

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            If I had to pick which person is exhibiting reddit-logo behavior in a discussion where one side is playing devil’s advocate for a dude who had 2 small children in his hotel room in an area known for kidnapping and child sex abuse, and another is saying the obvious despite not technically having strong evidence beyond the previously stated, my finger’s on the guy that doesn’t understand burden of proof.

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                countdown

                The proof is the article, the burden of proof to provide a comparable case of someone who happened to be doing the most suspicious thing possible and was crucified by the media, yet turned out to be innocent, is on you.

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                  There’s confusion. I’ve maintained that to me, the goalpost is conviction. I cited an article that’s less damning for sure but I still motivate my goalpost by principles, not examples. It’s simpler to rely on an already established baseline, which is the justice system’s convictions, and I’m okay if that means that sometimes, a very plausibly guilty man benefits from undeserved anonimity

                  But you know, every time I say that homeowners should indeed face jailtime for shooting a fleeting burglar in the back I face the same people with the same arguments

                  People like to be tough on crime, but I don’t like people who feel the need to do justice themselves

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                    But you know, every time I say that homeowners should indeed face jailtime for shooting a fleeting burglar in the back I face the same people with the same arguments

                    Homeowners who murder people should be thrown in jail.

                    Pedophiles should be thrown in jail.

                    Very easy and simple to say.

                    I don’t understand how you gotta keep running defense for pedophiles.

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                I understand the burden of proof but the guy isn’t in a court.

                He travelled to an area known for sex trafficking and was caught in a hotel room with 2 children he had no earthly connection to and was arrested by police. He decided to bolt the country knowing what he had done was wrong.

                It amazing how you keep jumping to different arguments defending the guy when you realise just how fucking tenuous your point is.

                Let’s examine something else here: nowhere have you shown one iota of concern for those children. Nothing about living in an area with obvious poverty that they are easily swept up by sex tourists and abused.

                Not anything for the sex workers who are suffering the brunt of the fallout from this with the police chief using it to beat them with.

                You’re only concern is for an American, very likely white collar worker who has travelled overseas to an area known for sex trafficking and has been caught in a hotel with two children.

                That is where your concern lays.

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            This comment gives me hope. I hate all the reddit kneejerk reactionaries. Sure, he may be a scumbag, but perhaps we should make sure beyond a reasonable doubt first.

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              Travelling overseas to an area rife with sex trafficking and getting caught in a hotel with 2 children he has absolutely no relation to is to you not beyond a reasonable doubt?

              As I’ve said elsewhere, consider that you’ve said nothing of any concern for those children, about the poverty they very likely live in, nor for the sex workers who are being the brunt of the fallout from this.

              Your concern is all on the paedo sex tourist caught in a hotel with 2 children.

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      Do you realize how certain one has to be to accuse a person of such a crime?

      Would you want to live in a world where 1 of 100 considered guilty is innocent?

      Would you feel the same way if you’d be that?

      Do you realize how probabilities work?

      If something has a 1 in a 1000 probability, then from time to time it happens.

      And then the final question - do you consider it too much of a bother to go through investigative process with civilized legal proceedings to confirm what is true and reduce the probability of a mistake?

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        “Blah blah blah I’m defending paedophiles”

        That’s what your wall of text is saying.

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          My wall of text is saying that you want innocent people to be condemned, fighting against failsafe for that.

          Thus you are a criminal and should hang.