As Will already said, it comes down to personal politics and philosophies. In my opinion, if someone kills a friends because they duked it out once, the bad guy lost, then came back with a gun, it's sick, but there was "reason" or "motive" to do so: anger and revenge.
If my friend is a flamboyant homosexual, walking down a street and some homophobe pulls out a gun and kills him BECAUSE he is gay, there is no "motive", no "reason" or "rhyme" or "rationalizing" like the former example.
For me, there's a huge difference. One is out-right hate, the other revolves around an action. I don't know how else to put it.
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