Pandy asked What do you think is the most fitting punis…

a fine at the least, a small amount of prison time maybe, if it's proved beyond a reasonable doubt? it should be enough to deter false accusations, but not enough to make people with real accusations fear for what might happen if their case falls through

Teo · 5y

False love, it's the fittest I guess.

Seta · 5y

That'd be pretty hard to prove, but the punishment should probably be what his/her accuser would've gotten.

Alice 💋 · 5y

Rape!

TimeSplitters · 5y

If someone intentionally makes false rape or sexual assault accusations, they should get the same punishment the accused would have gotten. At the very least, they should get some amount of prison time.

AJS · 5y

Depends on every case but it is a crime and needs to be punished. One year prison or 20.000€ maybe. It has to hurt so others won't try it again. Men are the victims here. Brother, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCGAzIPwOs8

Wasserpistole · 5y

[09-22-19]

idk

( Not concerned with 'fitting' as much as effective. Either way difficult to measure that as well. People's emotions are high here, which makes it difficult to be objective. Obviously the balance needs to be struck where victims aren't afraid to come forward, but liars are. There at least needs to be some sort of common knowledge that bad things can happen to you. Now the thing floating about is "all women should be believed" … no way that could lead to anything bad. )

_ · 5y

that's tough. cause if you establish a punishment for false rape accusers that's fine but if one person accuse another of rape and it isn't proven than that accuser could be punished. Just cause something isn't proven doesn't make it false. It's a sticky situation

Chris CM. Martinez · 5y

It's hard because (especially now) the second the accusation is made, the hammer is upon you - if not legally then definitely socially. Even if only 1% of accusations are false, that must be cold comfort for those few. That said, things are bad enough and you can't be discouraging survivors from coming forward, so there would have to be a pretty high standard to charge someone like that - not just identifying the wrong person, but knowing it's the wrong person, or just making up what happened entirely. In the latter case it's akin to perjury, so probably a similar sentence would be in order. And heaven help them if anything DOES happen with that on their record.

Sean ⚡🤖 · 5y

200 hrs of social work.

Kate Matsuda · 5y

Well, that's a tricky situation. If you punish false rape accusers, then they'll be dissuaded from admitting it was false rape and the accused will continue to rot in jail.. so that's why they don't punish them. I guess it also intimidates women from telling when they actually were raped, which they're intimidated enough from doing already.

But if those factors didn't matter and we were going to punish them for some reason, I'd say... rape!! no j/k =( i dunno. Prison time, of course.

Pandy · 11 answers · 5y