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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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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Of course I do- you know me well enough to not need ask that-
but does it hurt society more than little Billy being killed walking home from school, or high school honor student Mona- kidnapped geting into her car after work at the Piggily Wiggily- raped and strangled. that's the question.
PS Duke is playing state GTG.
