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[–] fishos@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

They already answered you. They don't feel that all of Kevin Spacey's accusers actually got their "day in court" because there's evidence to show that they were coerced into dropping their cases, and for some of them they died. So no, "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" doesn't apply when we didn't get an actual conclusion to most of the cases. There's a vast difference between being found "not guilty" and "having charges dismissed".

But apparently nuance is too much for you and you want simple hard fast rules that apply to everything. In which case, maybe read the thousands of years of moral philosophy dealing with that exact topic and see if you can reduce all of it to a single platitude. No one's done it before, but apparently your smartass is up for the challenge since you're the resident authority around here.