Would you want to be judged without due process and just have someone convict you based on their accusations. I think not.
Answer the question. - if there's no video evidence, how will your friend or family member prove assault?
They can't, right? "Beyond a reasonable doubt," can't be met on evidence here. So... do you go about telling your friend of family member ot shut up about being punched, because they can't prove it?
I’m terrified of false accusations.
I know. So, here's the thing - look up the thread, to the point where Dannyalcatraz notes that false accusations are rare.
You have to do the hard thing - ignore your fear for a moment. Your fear is not based on data. It is a feeling that came creeping out of the back of your skull without real foundation.
In reality, if you comport yourself like a person who shouldn't be accused, an accusation is unlikely to happen at all. If you are good, kind, respectful, and all those things you know you are supposed to be anyway, nobody is ever going to falsely accuse you - they'll have no need or desire to do so, because you will have treated them well. If someone is going to cast about with a false accusation*, they won't do so to someone who they found to be a good person. They'll find some nozzle to malign.
*Note - the woman who casts around to make accusations without cause is a myth, too. Women do not gain anything from making accusations. Nothing positive happens to women when they make accusations.
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