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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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Really? Because if anything, the former perpetuates more crime and excerbates illegal drug trade.
However, I see no difference whatsoever. Both are murderers plain and simple.
