Rejecting Doubtful Evidence

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The presumption of evidence is being touted as uniquely American or a founding tenet of Western thought. It is important indeed to Western jurisprudence, but its provenance spans thousands of years. Wikipedia notes how the Romans expressed it: “ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat” (“the burden of proof is on the one who declares, not on

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[asher63]

Thank you for this welcome dose of sanity. It's good to hear from you.

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You're welcome.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle (@DeHavelle)

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I didn't mention that Hadith 1290 was from the "Book of Jihad" - as that leads into a different topic.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle (@DeHavelle)

[marmoe]

Kavanaugh is not facing a court, he is undergoing a job interview for an important position. Would you give a prospective treasurer or CEO for your company the benefit of doubt, too? If there were a person claiming under threat of perjury and destruction of his/her career that the prospective treasurer/CEO was involved in shady business practice in the past? Or would you want to have the allegation sorted out to a reasonable extent first?

Let's wait for the FBI to do its job.

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Kavanaugh is not facing a court, he is undergoing a job interview for an important position.
Nonsense. He is being tried on the world stage in front of millions with people encouraged by the Left to hate him, and he and his family regularly receive death threats. And from the Left, who have demonstrated the capacity to carry out such things. Why is he the subject of all of this vile rancor? Because he was nominated by Trump.
Would you give a prospective treasurer or CEO for your company the benefit of doubt, too?
You are confusing "benefit of doubt" with "presumption of innocence." I have hired executives, and one in particular was blasted by her former superior, the CEO of another company. I hired her anyway, as I realized that the other CEO was lying and had some sort of psychological problem. This was to my great benefit.
If there were a person claiming under threat of perjury and destruction of his/her career that the prospective treasurer/CEO was involved in shady business practice in the past?
We have no such situation here. Blasey

[john_j_enright]

Interesting on the history of the idea. For some reason I hadn't thought much about that.