BlameThePeacock

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, you say hockey is the problem, but people will literally fight you over coffee, a parking spot, or some invisible force in the sky.

It's not the sport that's causing problems, it's just humans being humans.

We like to think we're evolved beyond such stupidity, but we aren't even close.

Anyone pretending that "changing the culture" will magically eliminate the problem entirely is just as stupid as the people they're complaining about.

People are always going to do bad things, and that's why we have a legal system to deal with those situations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Sexual assaults have been covered up by literally every organization that has ever had people in it. This isn't a sport issue, the Catholic Church has been doing it for thousands of years. Hell even families have covered up this kind of thing by paying people off for all of known history. Why are you surprised it exists anywhere? Fining people isn't going to stop that either, even if you started jailing executives from organizations if it happens all you would see is organizations shutting down, there's nothing they can do to prevent it 100% of the time no matter how much they "change their culture" .

So what's your solution? How do you prove something that happens only inside someone's mind?

You could video tape every single sexual encounter from start to finish, require both drug and alchohol tests prior to ensure competence, have the people involved make sworn statements before and every 5 minutes during, and it still wouldn't hold up if one party said they felt pressured because they thought the person would hurt them (physically, mentally, emotionally) outside the encounter if they didn't go through with it.

The system doesn't work.

So either sex has to stop entirely, people need to risk going to jail every time they have sex, or we need to change the system.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What part of any of this was boys will be boys?

What part of any of this was hockey related?

It's a problem with sex and consent and how consent is an impossible legal concept to prosecute except in obvious situations where it is actively revoked.

It's currently impossible for anyone to know they have the consent of their partner if the partner can always revoke it while saying nothing, or even while their partner is actively saying yes and then claiming duress later. If consent is impossible to know for sure, having sex is a huge legal liability for everyone participating.

That just isn't legally tenable as a situation unless the goal is literally to prevent everyone from having sex. That's a terrible idea, so the better options is to pick a different method of defining consent.

It may not be what some people want, but unless we want to change our legal system's requirement for "beyond a reasonable doubt" I don't see a better option.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Because you can't prove what's inside your mind, and that's what a lot of sexual assault cases come down to.

She said and acted one way, but is saying after the fact that in her head she believed something else.

You can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt in that case.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

It's you're wrong.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This content occurs in the Bible, should it also be banned from sale?

What about old plays that contain similar content?

What about art that contains it?

The point is that visa and mastercard should not be policing it, if is legal to own you should be allowed to buy it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Thats fine, but then restocking fees become part of you wanting to test things.

That shouldn't be on the manufacturer or other customers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Our court systems are setup to require "beyond reasonable doubt" but sexual assault cases struggle to meet that threshold anytime there is even a little bit of grey area, then they also struggle on the defendants side when it comes to reputational loss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Do your research before buying something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

There's no restocking fee for an item that you didn't get, because it's not a return.

A company charging you a restocking fee in that situation is a scam.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The customer always pays, not the business.

Do you want to pay extra because other people return items?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (20 children)

It has nothing to do with discounting it, it has to do with paying for the labour involved in the sale and refund process, which takes worker time.

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