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Premier League teams are playing footballers facing abuse claims (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I mean we can’t have it both ways. Footballers can be absolute wankers and treat people badly. 100%. But they are also easy targets. Do we want to live in a world whereby at best your career is halted and worst destroyed by unproven allegations?

I know there are blurred lines. The Greenwood situation for example. Whereby you have some pretty damning things that are made public, and then it’s a bit of a moral/PR conundrum.

For me though, innocent until proven guilty. Or we decent into chaos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The problem with innocent until proven guilty is that in practice you're letting off most perpetrators scot free. How can someone possibly prove something was not consensual? Recordings maybe, but that's only possible if they know it'll happen beforehand. There's no easy answer that doesn't lead to some very bad outcomes.

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