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>> According to this essay, about 3% of men will get falsely accused of rape in their lifetime: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/17/lies-damned-lies-and-so....

>> The real number is impossible to determine, but is uncomfortably high.

> May I argue that it is uncomfortably low? The estimated percentage of women that are the victims of sexual assault is an order of magnitude higher.

If I'm reading you correctly, you seem to think the solution to the problem of rape is to falsely report more men?

How does arresting non-rapists for rape prevent rapists from raping?




I don't think you're reading the comment correctly. The comment is not proposing that falsely accusing more people will solve any problems.

EDIT: gender agnostic phrasing


Can you propose an alternate meaning to the part I quoted that makes any sense?


“The problem is not the number of false reports of rape. The problem is the number of true non-reported rapes.”




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