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So you think it's fine to not hire someone and possibly ruin their career and life based on unsubstantiated allegationts?

What if you got falsely acussed of sexual assault? Will you go "well that sucks" and start collecting food stamps for the rest of your life?



I'm pointing out an observation, I'm not sure how interesting it is to ask me to imagine what if I were accused of sexual assault.

But while we are imagining, imagine that you are a school administrator who has hired such a teacher, and then there is another accusation of sexual crime with the same teacher. You suspend the teacher while investigations are ongoing, and ultimately the investigations go nowhere.

From the perspective of others, who is at fault? Isn't it time to quit because as an organizational leader you've lost the confidence of the public, which now impairs your effectiveness? As an observer, that is the answer I observe to be true of the land.

And let's not forget... the justice system gets things wrong sometimes. It's not a proxy for your eyes.


But isn't that what in practice often happen when the name and/or image of the accused makes it into the news?

It is not at all fine that someone gets their life ruined by falsely accusations, but identifying the accused in media goes a long way towards it.




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