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Absolutely. Do we consider the source as a matter of principal when evaluating testimony?
But that's likely to change depending on who is the target and what the news tells you to feel that day.
HAHA..."Absolutely, but also, subjectively", (I paraphrase)
See, this is where your hypothesis, that reality must have tangible evidence, gets tricky. Now we're out of the realm of what's tangible, and we find ourselves right back where we started, in the subjective realm of opinion.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: JinMI
Not subjectively. Subject to scrutiny. You do know the difference...right?
There's no difference. Scrutiny is subjective. It's not tangible. Scrutiny suggests an outcome that is a non-tangible subjective opinion.
Trump was accused of rape, which he denied.
A jury found that he did not rape her.
Defamation doesn't exist if the statements made are true.
The state’s law says that a person is liable for rape when a person forces sexual intercourse with another person without their consent. For the purposes of this law, “sexual intercourse” means “any penetration, however slight, of the penis into the vaginal opening.”
Trump was accused of sexually assaulting E Jean Carroll. She says that he pulled down her panty hose and digitally penetrated her.
Legally, Trump didn't rape E Jean Carroll.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: JinMI
By that logic, then testimony is not tangible therefore not evidence.
No. Logically, reality doesn't require tangible evidence to exist.
Thus what he said was true and can't by definition be defamation.
Rapes happen every day, and most of the time there is no tangible evidence. That doesn't mean it wasn't rape.
There is no tangible evidence that what Trump said was true (reality).
If Trump would have merely denied raping her, he wouldn't have been sued for defamation.
So lets find ways to make sure our law enforcement is solving those and not spending finite resources on this eh?
Sure. Yet a jury said he didn't rape her and that was her claim.
Your facts are off the mark.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Sookiechacha
Now you're just throwing crap at the wall.
Simply put, no rape, therefore no defamation.
It really is that cut and dry.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: bastion
He didn't rape her
Exactly
No rape, no defamation.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: bastion
So we can defame people when they say true things.
Solid logic.