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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (385282)5/20/2008 7:46:14 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (2) of 1577179
 
David,

It basically creates a second class of citizen, which seems discriminatory at its core to me.

There is that concept, and component of the opposition to classification of crimes as "hate crimes" - for people on the receiving end (victims)

But there is something even more basic, which is freedom of conscience, or freedom of thought. The law can apply to persons actions, but when you have a law that legislates what one is "allowed" to think, I cannot think of a greater violation of human rights.

So when you have 2 people commiting identical crime, how do tell one is a hate crime and the other is not? You have to divine peoples thought (how this can be done, I am not sure) and judge for thoughts. So ones thoughts become criminal.

Joe
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