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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
Hate Crime Laws are bullshit.
The penalties for a crime should be the same regardless of motivation.
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Yet the penalties for treason are not the same as the penalties for theft or assault. The penalties for killing someone on purpose is not the same as killing them by accident.
Motivation is always important in crimes. Furthermore, like a previous poster said, if the motivation is to take the law into your own hands and control segments of the population through terror, then law enforcement has a burden to stomp it out. While people will always hate, they will always kill and steal, we make laws and punishments to discourage people from such actions. If you disagree with that, then you disagree with our whole legal system.