Originally posted by OnePunch
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Burden of Proof;
"In a legal dispute, one party has the burden of proof to show that they are correct, while the other party has no such burden and is presumed to be correct. The burden of proof requires a party to produce evidence to establish the truth of facts needed to satisfy all the required legal elements of the dispute"
This is not a legal matter of course, but the burden of proof still stands here and it's entirely on you, the claimant (person making the claim) to do so.
We then have the philosophical definition, which applies more and here despite the premise being the same;
"When two parties are in a discussion and one makes a claim that the other disputes, the one who makes the claim typically has a burden of proof to justify or substantiate that claim, especially when it challenges a perceived status quo."
Like I say it's just how claims work in life, if you make a claim, you have to provide evidence as to why that is true.
If I were to make the claim that you are gay for example, if you were to dispute that the burden of proof would be on me to prove why that claim is true, until then it's just my word which is essentially as good as meaningless without evidence.
That's not stopping people from taking my word for it, but again that would still just be no more than a baseless claim without being backed up with evidence.
So in short, you've made the claim here that Ennis has ducked Crawford, that is the claim, that claim has been challenged, and now the burden of proof is on you, the claimant, the justify that claim with evidence as to why it's true.
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