With the few details the article gives it sounds like Van Damme could of thought they were hooker's or just some girls wanting to fuck a star. Could be more not being told though.
The lack of it has left me defending some people I really don’t want to defend, but damnit, if it’s equal Justice before the Law and not “Find me the man and I’ll find you the crime”, we need to make good cases for known crimes and not just pursue bias.
I do get it. It’s frustrating seeing so many people seeming to get away with things. Still gotta calm down and think. Be the autists we were born to be!
I know people who I know, without doubt, were found guilty just because they were falsely accused, and the people charged with judging the case couldn’t think critically.
You know… I always heard “better for 100 guilty to go free than one innocent to be falsely convicted”. The exact opposite statement.
I always took it as “if criminals get in charge of things, they’ll try and wrongfully convict the innocent, so it’s better that we let 100 criminals go free than that to happen.”
Was that statement propagated by criminals, though? Fundamentally, we are probably all guilty of something, so it’s definitely a good question that is worth giving some thought.
Sounds like he was either stupid, or criminal. The women were presented as "photo models" and "given to him as a gift". Now if they looked adult enough and he wasn't actually told that they were not willing participants in the deal he was stupid to accept that "gift", as presumably that is how criminal groups and everybody else can get blackmailing victims for themselves. Don't sleep with women you don't know, least of all women introduced to you by shady characters for just one night or other short time.
And if he was told, well, he is a criminal, although even then there is still the chance that he was mostly just stupid, maybe assuming that it was part of some type of kinky role play thing. So I suppose it is also possible he was both stupid and criminal, or ended up as a criminal because he was stupid. Not very flattering either way.
And if he was just dirty and knew exactly what was going on... too bad.
All alternatives, actually. He made crappy movies, but lately he has seemed sort of good sport about his whole career, somebody who could laugh at himself and tolerate being laughed at, so this is kind of sad to know, no matter what alternative it is.
Although I suppose there is also still the chance that it didn't happen, or if it did during some party he was drunk enough or under the influence of some other drug that he didn't get what was really happening particularly well. He was never a real movie star, but is very well known, and supposedly pretty rich. And that presumably would make him a tempting target for false allegations too, in hopes that they could squeeze some nice sum from him. This is ten years after the supposed fact, much harder for him to prove it didn't happen if it didn't, so it may be left to something like he said she said.
With the few details the article gives it sounds like Van Damme could of thought they were hooker's or just some girls wanting to fuck a star. Could be more not being told though.
At least someone here knows how to think critically and not just a knee-jerk retard posting like"He's guilty!!!".
u/#updoot
The lack of it has left me defending some people I really don’t want to defend, but damnit, if it’s equal Justice before the Law and not “Find me the man and I’ll find you the crime”, we need to make good cases for known crimes and not just pursue bias.
I do get it. It’s frustrating seeing so many people seeming to get away with things. Still gotta calm down and think. Be the autists we were born to be!
I know people who I know, without doubt, were found guilty just because they were falsely accused, and the people charged with judging the case couldn’t think critically.
You know… I always heard “better for 100 guilty to go free than one innocent to be falsely convicted”. The exact opposite statement.
I always took it as “if criminals get in charge of things, they’ll try and wrongfully convict the innocent, so it’s better that we let 100 criminals go free than that to happen.”
Was that statement propagated by criminals, though? Fundamentally, we are probably all guilty of something, so it’s definitely a good question that is worth giving some thought.
Sounds like he was either stupid, or criminal. The women were presented as "photo models" and "given to him as a gift". Now if they looked adult enough and he wasn't actually told that they were not willing participants in the deal he was stupid to accept that "gift", as presumably that is how criminal groups and everybody else can get blackmailing victims for themselves. Don't sleep with women you don't know, least of all women introduced to you by shady characters for just one night or other short time.
And if he was told, well, he is a criminal, although even then there is still the chance that he was mostly just stupid, maybe assuming that it was part of some type of kinky role play thing. So I suppose it is also possible he was both stupid and criminal, or ended up as a criminal because he was stupid. Not very flattering either way.
And if he was just dirty and knew exactly what was going on... too bad.
All alternatives, actually. He made crappy movies, but lately he has seemed sort of good sport about his whole career, somebody who could laugh at himself and tolerate being laughed at, so this is kind of sad to know, no matter what alternative it is.
Although I suppose there is also still the chance that it didn't happen, or if it did during some party he was drunk enough or under the influence of some other drug that he didn't get what was really happening particularly well. He was never a real movie star, but is very well known, and supposedly pretty rich. And that presumably would make him a tempting target for false allegations too, in hopes that they could squeeze some nice sum from him. This is ten years after the supposed fact, much harder for him to prove it didn't happen if it didn't, so it may be left to something like he said she said.
Could’ve or could have.