04-22-2016, 11:36 AM
(04-22-2016, 11:22 AM)Griever Wrote: yeah you cant bring charges for consensual sex (if any occurred)
plus, if she was raped, i doubt she would have her lawyer right a letter to the DA to drop it
any DA worth his salt would have loved to pin a rape on a big time athlete
To be totally fair, what you say is not 100% convincing either. It is not uncommon for a rape victim to pull back if they feel they're not being believed. And the DA thing - well, that may be true, especially since he's not from Steeler country. But if the DA is a big sports fan, he might be more likely to take an athlete's side. There remains a possibility that you could be wrong. Unlike Brad, you have actually demonstrated an ability to think things through objectively, so I think you will agree with this.
The point is that you can make reasonable rebuttals to either argument, which means that one of the major remaining criteria for picking a side is team loyalty. And that's fine and to be expected, but I think that anyone who claims either absolute guilt or absolute innocence is an unthinking homer.