Witches VS Patriarchy

Thank you for responding, I really appreciate your attempt. I complete understand that it is hypothetical until it happens you just can't really know.

I know survivors and at least one person who was falsely accused (it was found out and was revealed within a reasonable timeframe in the whole shit show that was happening)

And I have had this come up in a couple times in conversations, its actually what prompted me to ask you.

And I think you are absolutely a good person to ask, because while it sounds like you know a lot more people than I do, I was asked this same question, in different forms, from multiple people and like I mentioned, I really don't know how I would feel about it really until it happened.

But it would anger me a lot I have no doubt. I would feel like I threw away someone who needed me when it was just important.

I don't know how I would handle being falsely accused and getting convicted of it. I wouldn't want to live with living through the people in my life all believing this about me, it's a small pool by most standards and that makes them very precious to me. It could very well be the end for me by me. And I've been told by better than myself it isn't a surprising result.

But like I have been sexually assaulted, and while I'm careful to acknowledge that my experience, while valid, isn't typically useful as a comparison. It does leave me with a lot of compassion and empathy.

What is important is that anyone who is a victim, can speak to the right people, or have someone speak for them with their consent, on their behalf. I was fortunate, entirely too many people aren't.

And the real kicker is that we are all imperfect so we get shit wrong sometimes no matter how much we try to do right