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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (37419)3/9/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive  Read Replies (3) of 67261
 
The problem with "hate" crime designations is that what underlies the concept is to assign a heavier penalty for such crimes. While I agree with you that on a philosophical level killing someone because of the color of their skin is deeply repugnant, so too is killing for the $20 bill. We have always had as part of the effort to prove murder determining the motive, which is fine. But the "motive" assessment should only be relevant as a means of helping to determine guilt. Not degrees of guilt, as though somehow a person guilty of "hate" crime should be more severely punished than any other murderer. Or perhaps to turn the argument around, to say that a person who "only" murdered for the $20 somehow deserves less judgement.

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