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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (5350)	2/9/2001 8:38:15 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 82486

And I don't understand why a murder committed in "the heat of the moment" is less henious under our laws than the murder that is pre-meditated. I might think the latter more cold, but someone who has such a heated moment might have another one. Clearly they have it in them. I'd as soon they didn't get out of jail any faster than the colder person. So if we as a society already make distinctions in how we treat crimes, to use the argument that hate crime legislation gives one victim more status than another falls short. Tell me the spouse murdered by the angry other is as important as the spouse murdered in cold-blood for a life-insurance policy. They are equally important, but we treat the crimes differently. Wasn't murder committed during a car-jacking upped to a federal offence because people at large (those with nice cars) became so afraid?