Really? I thought it was almost impossible to prove a negative.
"You eat babies in your spare time!"
"No, no I don't."
The 1st can produce a picture of the person eating a baby, how does the 2nd prove that he doesn't eat babies?
If the person who had the claim made against them had to definitively prove that beyond a doubt he doesn't eat babies - he'd have to have had someone recording him for every minute of his waking life, including those moments prior to the claim.
The only way to prove a negative is to run a (perhaps nearly) infinite number of tests and never get that result.
"You eat babies in your spare time!"
"No, no I don't."
The 1st can produce a picture of the person eating a baby, how does the 2nd prove that he doesn't eat babies?
If the person who had the claim made against them had to definitively prove that beyond a doubt he doesn't eat babies - he'd have to have had someone recording him for every minute of his waking life, including those moments prior to the claim.
The only way to prove a negative is to run a (perhaps nearly) infinite number of tests and never get that result.