> The historic lesson
_The_ lesson? As in, there's no other lesson? Pretty convenient ignoring everything else if it doesn't fit your goal.
> Bro I really really hope you are not trying to compare wrongful cancellation and rape.
The base difference is really between cancelling someone or not giving a victim the relief that the perpetrator got punished, since if the crime already happened you cannot undo that, however I can see why this doesn't include punishing someone as a deterrent for others to avoid performing similar crimes in the first place.
On comparing wrongful cancellation and rape however, have you ever tried imagining yourself losing your friends, your job, your house, all your savings etc etc for something you didn't do? This is torture, most people would go crazy from it, at least I would. Can you even begin recovering from this? Not to downplay rape, but at least rape victims get recognized as such, get help and support from other people and have some chance of at least partially recovering.
"The" means the lesson we are talking relevant to this sort of circumstances, not the only lesson:)
> since if the crime already happened you cannot undo that
Prosecution is not just making victim feel okay but making it very damn clear to others thinking of doing it
> have you ever tried imagining yourself losing your friends, your job, your house, all your savings etc etc for something you didn't do
It sucks a lot if you are innocent but as I said in another comment it is still a big inconvenience by comparison. Did he even lose a house? in the letter he just said he can't pay rent. move in with parent, solved
Saying in these cases "we must believe the man" is not OK because we all know 9 out of 10 times it is a man. Saying "hard proof or it didn't happen" is not OK because the way this crime works unless you put entire society under cryptographically signed cctv 100% of the time so that you have proof what everyone did when. Even just online as soon as government makes a sound about e2ee chats every techbro (almost always it's a bro, coincidence) goes bananas. So yes this is the alternative and it sucks but is the least bad if you are privacy conscious.
What we can do is work to have this not happen. Goading "don't put your dick in crazy" (where not crazy = a victim who shuts up) like in comments of this thread is not how you do it tho
> It sucks a lot if you are innocent but as I said in another comment it is still a big inconvenience by comparison.
Getting your life destroyed is not just an "inconvenience", it's psychologically devastating and the fact you consider it acceptable is seriously fucked up.