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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (2768)	10/17/2000 9:30:44 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

What kind of "hate crime" is worse than murder? Those are the ones that are specified in almost every example for why we need a law. Listen.. if you want to increase resentment and perpetuate animosity against a particular race, or sexual preference, then all you have to do is pass hate crime legislation. When you protect a small portion of society, making a crime committed specifically against them of more consequence than a crime committed against the rest of society, you are creating a breeding ground for more resentment. Murder is murder... Beating up someone because they are gay, or black,..etc, is no different that beating up on someone just because they pssed you off at a bar by looking at your girlfriend. Both involved taking internal feelings and externalizing them in violation of another person's civil rights. Try as you might, gays, blacks, hispanics, or anyone else, will never have more basic human rights than anyone else in this nation. Trying to give them special rights of recourse under the law, or a "protected status" is the path to elitism.. If you want to solve the problem, enforce the current laws and let the current system do its job. The system has always taken into account the motive for the crime, especially ones that are more heinous than others, such as serial killings. (or is that cereal?.. :0) All you are advocating it the placing of a bandaid over a cancerous lesion. Hate crimes are pepetrated by the same kinds of people who would commit over violent crimes. People who think they don't have to comply with the same laws that you and I have to. Hate Crime legislation would dilute the social outrage we SHOULD be feeling about ALL KINDS of violent crime.*