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Originally Posted by fugazifan
it is horrible that someone would oppose sexual preferance to be in the hate crime law.
and i do belive that there should be hate crime laws. not necesserilly worse punishment but definatly for the law to differentiate between crimes.
lets say there is a shopowner that owes the mob money and they burn down his shop.
and lets say that there is a shop keeper that is jewish and his shop is burnt down by neo nazis, simply for his being jewish.
so what you have is the same outcome, a burnt-down shop, and both arsonists should be arrested for the crime. but there must be awareness that one of the crimes was done because of bigotry.
its just like if a public place was blown up by either some crazy disgruntled worker or, if it was blown up by (for the sake of being current) an islamic terrorist.
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There is no difference except the motive, the crimes are exactly the same, deal with the motives on sentencing
In both examples you end up with a burnt out shop and blown up people!