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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (42084)6/27/1999 7:19:00 PM
From: Father Terrence  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
If I were a criminal I would always be very discriminating in my victims. If I wanted lots of money, I would rob the rich or banks, not the poor. If I hated people with blue eyes I would select only blue-eyed victims to take out my righteous wrath upon. If I enjoyed stabbing people and listening to gristle and tendons tear, snap and crack, I would choose thinner people who were easier to knife than fatties (where the knife would slice through layers of greasy fat in an unpleasing way).

But discrimination, especially in the selection of a crime victim, is a form of harmful conduct that the government has an obligation to eradicate.

My point is in many cases it would be difficult, if not impossible to prove a crime was or was not motivated by "hate" unless the perpetrator freely confessed that was the primary motive. Also, whatever happened to "double jeopardy" where an accused cannot be tried twice for the same crime?

FT
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