Didn’t downvote, but I am confused about what point you were trying to make.
Did you mean that we don’t gain anything from a short-term, selfish perspective? In which case, of course—who’s advocating believing victims for personal gain?
Or did you mean that in the aggregate, overall, as a society, we’re not better off believing and defending true claims of abuse? In which case, that seems questionable at best.
If I take “gain anything” literally, then it seems clearly wrong. At the very least we gain knowledge by believing true claims.
And if I take “gain anything” to mean, “are better off overall”, then I’m still a bit skeptical. For example, in the short run it only hurts me to learn that farm animals suffer. But in the long run, that’s something I want to know about and hope that we could ultimately fix. The situation seems similar with abuse of humans.
What am I missing—do you disagree with any of the above? Are we just using words differently?
Didn’t downvote, but I am confused about what point you were trying to make.
Did you mean that we don’t gain anything from a short-term, selfish perspective? In which case, of course—who’s advocating believing victims for personal gain?
Or did you mean that in the aggregate, overall, as a society, we’re not better off believing and defending true claims of abuse? In which case, that seems questionable at best.
If I take “gain anything” literally, then it seems clearly wrong. At the very least we gain knowledge by believing true claims.
And if I take “gain anything” to mean, “are better off overall”, then I’m still a bit skeptical. For example, in the short run it only hurts me to learn that farm animals suffer. But in the long run, that’s something I want to know about and hope that we could ultimately fix. The situation seems similar with abuse of humans.
What am I missing—do you disagree with any of the above? Are we just using words differently?