Lion, did you really mean to say everyone who reports rape or molestation is lying? Are you sure about that?
Not only did I not mean that, I didn't say that. Read over what I said slowly before assuming.
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I pointedly said that it was a theory, and caveated I had a very limited basis for it, and I did that for a reason. Now, I made a mistake, in that I used an absolute in my writing. I should have said "many people" instead of "anybody" for instance.
However, I am still convinced in the overall jist of what I said. What would it take to disprove this in my mind? Some real first hand data proving me otherwise, such as a girl I am friends with and trusting telling me otherwise and then going to court about it.
GML, the reason many people don't report acts of rape or other types of sexual molestation is because sadly, many people have an attitude like you.
I roll my eyes at people involved in stories in newspapers as they are generally trumped up and inaccurate. I maintain my theories in private and explain them when someone asks me why I said something they don't understand, as in this instance.
In person, I judge people based upon that person and only that person. Most people are generally put on this planet as tools for the few people bright enough to use them, and therefore what happens to them is not even remotely interesting to me.
I bet some people on here wonder what I think of them. With a few exceptions the answer is: I don't think of you!
If I don't think of them, I can't imagine why they'd think of me. If they don't report rapes or molestations because they worry what somebody who neither knows or cares about their existence thinks about them, they are so lost, the crime is not one of their larger issues.
If one of the people I really cared about was sexually molested or raped, the perpetrator wouldn't be going to trial. They'd be going to the bottom of a finger lake in cement shoes. Someone I knew and trusted told me they were raped or molested, I'd believe them. If I didn't trust them, I wouldn't care one way or another.
I honestly don't think that people like me are a problem to anyone. Because there is only one person like me. Unless you mean people as independently minded as me, in which case we're too disorganized and resigned to a rotten world to mount a problem for anyone.