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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
which hurts society more-
Man kill child walking home from school-
white man kills black gay guy walking home from bar-
There are all sorts of murders for all sorts of reason- they're not equally bad or equally harmful but catagories are tough to draw.
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The categories may be tought, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. But your hypothetical omits the facts that backers of hate-crime laws find important -- the motive. If a white man kills a black gay guy walking home from a bar because the guys owes a drug lord $$$ and isn't paying, that doesn't do the same thing to the social fabric that it would if he killed a gay he didn't know from Adam simply because he's gay and/or black. The latter affects other people more, and differently. Do you not see this at all?
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