This makes no sense to me. Especially if it's false? If I'm correctly accused, I hope I get what I deserve! This feels like saying, "I bet you'll change your mind about manslaughter laws when if/when you accidentally run someone over with your car." No, I'm pretty sure I'll be preoccupied by feeling terrible for killing someone.
And I understand that false accusations happen occasionally, and I am willing to take that risk because a world that insists on zero false positives has a ton of false negatives. It would be hypocritical for me to not accept the consequences if it happens to affect me - I am not advocating for others anything I could not accept for myself. But I can absolutely accept that if I am a visible leader of an organization, or a manager of people, or in some other role of trust, and I am accused of something I believe I didn't do, the best thing for me to do for the organization is to step aside. (It is not like I can guarantee that I will even live to see tomorrow, so anything that I care about, I should arrange so that my personal involvement is not critical.)
But more than that, it's entirely possible (though I have zero reason to expect it to happen) that some behavior I thought was reasonable will be seen by the world as unreasonable. And if that happens, I am happy to accept the consequences. My goal is making the world a better place, not making myself powerful/comfortable at the expense of other people. If removing myself from positions of trust to prevent my behavior from hurting the world is the right thing for me to do, why should I shrink away from it?
except we designed the justice system so that it's better to let 10 guilty people go than let 1 innocent person suffer
the rest of your comment just sounds ridiculous, hurting the world? im sure you realize not everyone else has the same attitude and arent going to throw away their livelihood because of a false accusation. that's not moral high ground, its just pathetic
