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To: thames_sider who wrote (5050)3/27/2002 1:06:02 PM
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I agree about the especial nastiness of hate crimes; it's a visceral reaction.

But the law, without making motives the crime as opposed to the act (conspiring is an act, attempting murder is an act, defrauding is an act), already acknowledges mitigating and aggravating circumstances.

The same crime now, according to such circumstances, can receive a light or heavy sentence. It can yield death or a few years with time off for good behavior.

I personally am discomfited at the idea of making hate the crime as opposed to the act that the hate spawned. (Sitting around planning a hate crime... that's already a conspiracy.)

Beating somebody's head to a pulp for the contents of their wallet isn't exactly loving, we should remember, even if it is a race/sex/religion-blind crime.
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