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Originally Posted by val-holla-ing
yes we should condemn all violence against a person, but the sad thing is that some violence ONLY occurs as a result of negative feelings about one's race, gender, sexuality, etc. until that sort of thing stops happening, then there need to be laws to protect "other" people from that sort of violence.
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Are people not protected by the very fact that violence against the person is already illegal?
Wouldn't the common sense approach be to treat all violence as equally unacceptable under one non discriminatory law and to take into account the circumstances and reasons behind the violence on sentencing?