Comment on The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

• gingernate@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A conviction leads to sentencing (normally) in a criminal matter. A cival court is settling a cival matter, not a criminal one. Criminal courts convict you of a crime and sentence you to some kind of punishment. Cival courts can make you pay a fine, but not convict you of a crime.

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Again, another argument of semantics.

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    • gingernate@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, he’s a rapist. But not a convicted rapist. That’s all that’s being said

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    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That would be a more accurate statement, yes.

      But there’s more to it than just semantics. There’s also the level of certainty - civil trials have a dramatically lower standard of evidence than criminal trials.

      So when you say he’s been convicted of rape, you’re saying that 12 people were convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed rape. But that’s not the case - instead a judge was.convinced it was at least slightly more likely than not that he committed rape. That’s a very different standard.

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