Due process is pretty foundational for a free society.

The power of false accusation is immense. In both cases that I mentioned, I would have gone to jail for a felony and my life ruined.

I also was falsely accused multiple times by an ex-wife’s boyfriend. He would use the process as a weapon: he would go to a magistrate, make up things, and then I would be hauled out of bed at 6am and arrested. He was clever about it: I could not disprove his accusations, even though he could not prove them either, so I was never able to charge him with abuse of process.

If we were to give a group — say women — the power to falsely accuse another group — say men — and have accusation assume the power of proof, then we would have created a new persecuted class: men. We would be exchange one horrible problem for another. That’s not a solution.

The solution is to get people to realize — all people — that they are not safe alone with someone they don’t know well enough to determine them to be trustworthy.

Some percent of people are predatory, narcissistic, vindictive, or sociopathic. Not just men, but women too. Their choice of weapon is merely different.