05-24-2007, 08:30 AM
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is not this trim anymore!
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: New England
Posts: 21,709
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Originally Posted by Wicked Wanda
One well known religious- right wing group claims all crimes are crimes of hate, so adding a sexual orientation bias is not needed. This is stupid, ignorant "unseeing" philosophy.
If you are vicious mugger, beating and robbing to feed your need for money to buy coke or to buy flash, then that's what you are. A cruel uncaring sociopath. It isn't a crime of hate, but desire, the desire for money, and perhaps a taste for violence.
But if you pick a woman wearing "men's clothes", or with short hair, who is leaving a women's bar with another woman, and you "can't stand those f*****g queer lesbians" so beat and rob her, all the while not really caring if she has money or not, THAT is hate. No different than robbing and beating a woman wih 3 kids leaving a synagogue in an SUV because "all Jews are worthless anyhow".
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Shouldn't the act itself warrant the punishment? Regardless of the mindframe or intent?
Part of the problem in this country is that there are too many laws in place trying to cover every single possible scenario that could happen. Murder is murder. Assault is assault. Rape is rape. I'm not saying that it's ok for people to target others for any reason at all, just that the reprocussions for their actions should be based upon the crime that they commit, and not be magnified or minimized because of their intent. Should the people that killed Matthew Shepard be sentenced differently than those involved in the Central Park Jogger case had she died? I say "no!". Please don't look at that as uncaring...for it's exactly the opposite. I don't care why you kill someone and what you were thinking when you did it...that you did it pisses me off, and for doing it you lose your right to suck up my precious oxygen. I'm very, very pro-punishment. And I have little tolerance for excuses. I guess that's why it doesn't matter to me what people are thinking when they break the law.
I'm truly sorry for the pain you experience because of cretins.
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