It's a strange sort of idealism that denies the victims of sexual abuse the agency to make their own decisions about how to relate those abuses to their peers.
Thank you! I was about to say the exact same thing. First the act of rape takes away the victim's agency. Then random commenters on this site are presumptuous enough to try and take it away as well.
Well to each his ideals and his priority of ideals.
I for one think that:
* social ostracisation is a form of punishment.
* It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
* social media in most cases are worse at determining
guilt than the justice system.
and view that:
- social media and public opinion in general have
favored the accused in the past( victim blaming,..)
and as an overcorrecting favors the accuser now. In
both cases such a system leads to unfairness and
unregulated punishment.
These 3 ideals and one experience lead me to prefer a world where all crimes no matter their nature are decided on by court. if that's strange, well I'm strange.
Although, I'd like to say that in this idealised situation the victim is free to relate those abuses in his closed social circle and to the public after the judgment is made