No Love For The Haters
I heard on the news this morning that the state legislature finally passed a hate-crimes bill. It took them about four years, and the reason it finally passed was because sexual orientation as a qualifying category for a hate crime was taken out. Why do people hate so much? How can people be that cruel? Things like that make me ashamed to be human.
posted by skyeJ at 1/27/2006 08:24:00 AM
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Does hurting or killing someone because you "hate" them make them any more dead or injured than if you didn't hate them? "Hate Crimes" are a waste of legislation. It is already wrong to assault or kill people. If someone I loved were hurt or killed by a robber, a rapist or anyone else motived to hurt and kill people because of their own selfish choices, should I feel slighted because they are only going to punished by the "usual" laws? Shouldn't I lobby for a law to give extra punishment to "people I care about more than other people"? People are people. No one should assault or kill them regardless of the motivation for the crime---it's all based on selfishness. Hate crime legislation just implies that "ordinary" (whatever that is) victims aren't as important. Why should some crime victims be designated more special than others?
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