Actually, it’s terribly put. The presumption of innocence of a crime until proven guilty lies at the heart of society.
if you get accused of a crime would you be ok being sacked from your job before the case hit court, maybe your kids would be taken off you. All your friends deserted you.
it’s a very dangerous world where accusations are seen as legitimately destroying lives.
if you are accused of a crime, the only place where you should be deemed guilty or not is in a court. Not in the media.
Just because someone is objectionable, just because the media have whipped up a frenzy, just because some other celebrities are saying he’s a creep doesn’t make him guilty of a crime. - the people who come out and say he is an ok guy have just the same right to be heard.
We have many examples of situations throughout history where people thought it was fine to think someone guilty until proven innocent (clue it never ended well).
we cab say what our impressions of a person are (in my case I always thought brand came across as a horrible slimey man who never even made me smile). But crimes have a specific definition, the criminal justice system demands a certain level of proof. For a person to be found guilty. This is there to safeguard the innocent, it is vital to our society this is maintained. Can you imagine if someone accused their political rival of a crime, paid dime people to back up their claims. All of a sudden the very notion of democracy is undermined. Think through the consequences of what is being said here.
if the only place for the concept of innocent until proven guilty is in a court, the flip side of that is that court is the only place to decide if someone is guilty of a crime.