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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
You are kidding right? You really cannot think for yourself enough to understand that I was talking about human on human crime since it is the paradigm of the type of crime defined by hate crimes?
Then, I'm sorry I did not spell that out for you.
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Wasn't obvious to me either and I believe I am able to think for myself.
Where does one draw the line between "human on human" crime and other crime? Theft and burglary are not necessarily violent crimes, but they are crimes against people and there are gangs/individuals who will pick the store they shoplift or house they burgle by the race of the owners, so that would surely make those thefts "hate crime"? Don't people instinctively feel those people need to be punished more harshly than the hungry guy who steals food from the store because he needs to eat? Of course the crimes are the same, but the motives are different. Is motive really so irrelevant? Wouldn't the shopkeeper feel more violated in one case than in the other?
Just thinking aloud, really.....