While the comparison on the right hand side is definitely disrespectful and I also disagree with the basic premise, I'm not sure it is entirely unfair.

The net change on the numbers is insignificant to the fact that it comes out to somewhere in the 1/5-7 range for "cases with court or police dispositions".

It's a pretty reasonable assumption to say he'd have survived the abusive spouse, cheating and divorce. Nearly all people survive that shit.

Are we trying to do root cause analysis on one case of suicide to try to diffuse an assertion that false rape accusations are a serious, damaging problem? Because that's kind of fucked up. I'm an awful person, but that's still fucked up.

Totally right. I was thinking about evidence suppression. My law education consists of episodes of The Good Wife

I didn't read LibbyBell's post the same way you read LibbyBell's post, but you may well be right about her(?) intended meaning.

Before I do some math here, I want to state that I agree with you and am just trying to put the issue into concrete terms for myself.

The American legal system demands presumption of innocence of the accused until the facts can be laid bare for a jury(or judge, in a bench trial) to weigh and determine the truth. By law, the jury must assume she is a liar until she, or the prosecutor, can make a convincing argument that she's not. We can believe…

The lax alcohol laws affect poor communities everywhere. At least in NC, all liquor stores are government owned and take pains to ensure their own presence doesn't increase community violence levels. Here's a good paper that, among other things, discusses why putting liquor stores in poor neighborhoods is really…

Yankee is still used pretty commonly as a perjorative where I live. We use it to mean "Douchebag from the north who thinks growing up in an urban hellscape gives h(im|er) a better perspective on life than natural born fools from Carolina".

French Canada is basically where all the badasses from France moved 200 years ago, so I'm cool with this.

New Yorkers are hardly a shining example of post-racial society. We just had to take stop and frisk from them kicking and screaming. Permissive liquor laws concentrate crime in minority communities all over the north. Gun control laws rob minority communities of their ability to protect themselves in places the police…

Cersei's relationship to her brothers, however, is really common in West Virginia.

Everything until the "death and abortions" part of the infographic is totally cool information, but I've got a problem with that section.

When I was twelve, I accidentally saw my own parents having sex. Way more awkward than the simpsons. That was the day I learned about knocking on doors before you enter rooms.

Why would you marry a dildo? Can it even sign the pre-nup?

They make attachments for that

Nobody actually likes honesty though.

On the other side of the coin, there are definitely women who encourage this behavior in literally every kind of person who wants to have sex with them. I've had plenty of people that I propositioned after an evening or two of other fun activities/dates that said "No" once, and then I switched the subject to "Well,…

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