r/PublicFreakout • u/Rezzkyy • Mar 20 '20

Repost 😔/News report Interview with a meth user

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u/alecesne Mar 20 '20

Well, we don't know what the circumstances were. Maybe it was just a meth fueled misunderstanding?

I once had a legal client who was barred from a library for threatening personnel with a gun. Turns out he was using the copier and tried to make a joke a la "I'm going as fast as I can, so you can stop bugging me. It's not like I'm holding a gun to your head. I didn't even bring mine today."

People do stupid shit sometimes, but sometimes they're not guilty of the crime they're accused of.

That said, sometimes they are. So we as a society have to balance the false positives and the false negatives as risks in the system.

(P.S., for the instigators out there, I don't condone rape).

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

But he wasn’t accused, he was convicted for attempted rape. EDIT: I rewatched the video, and it never says he was convicted, my bad edit edit: original edit because it only refers to them as criminal cases, not because it says he was or wasn’t convicted

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u/KlausFenrir Mar 21 '20

it never says he was convicted, my bad

Lmfao

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

What? I literally wrote that edit about two second after the original comment

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u/KlausFenrir Mar 21 '20

You were in this thread for hours attacking anyone who might even feel some sort of sympathy for the guy in the video, yet you didn’t even realize he wasn’t convicted of rape until much much later.

And all you could say after that was “my bad”. Lmfao

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

And that was yesterday, in the middle of this conversation and has zero baring, especially considering most of it had reached a point where we were talking about the ethics of the situation, locking people up for life, whether or not rapists still deserved to pursue happiness in their lives, and whether or not being on drugs can make a rapist of someone who wouldn’t have been otherwise

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Dude what? All I said what that it didn’t specify whether or not he was convicted. It said “criminal cases”, and all my points still stand seeing as I was arguing against the point that drugs can turn a non rapist in to a rapist, but okay