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To: The Philosopher who wrote (24583)	8/24/2001 3:08:56 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) of 82486

The njudge only gets to that point when the lawyers are done arguing how the situation and the state of mind bears on the implementation of justice. Between killing in self defence and killing with hateful cowardice for basically NO other reason, there is a long highway as you well know. If this highway was not important we could dispense with the spectacle of lawyers spending hours trying to characterize an act as less reprehensible than apearances might indicate. I hardly think any of this is debatable territory. You know very well that your, "if you mugged this person but weren't hostile to her, you get two years in jail. If you mugged her but were hostile to her, you get tour years in jail." does not express the intent or the practice of hate crime legislation. When you invent such examples, it appears to me that you do not have the intent to look at the issue seriously, and that is fine with me. The thrust of hate crime legislation is to protect minorities from genocidal, murderous, racist, sexist, and hateful people: Because these kinds of people are alien to the common human experience, and because they are a threat to the civilized structure of a community.

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