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Originally Posted by matthew330
I don't think the comparison is valid. You're comparing two different crimes which laws without a "hate" clause distinguished between anyway. Do you think the punishment would be different if your example of a hate crime were instead two heterosexuals walking down the street and someone follows them home and bashes their head in with a hammer?
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It
shouldn't be. A hate crime is a hate crime.
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Originally Posted by matthew330
Not to mention that in my opinion if you have proven you have it in you to kill another human being in a given circumstance, you have it in you to do it again in another not necessarily identical circumstance, and no innocent person should be subject to that possibility ever again.
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You may have that opinion, but I don't see any reason to think so. We
all have the potential for murder. You, me, even Barack Obama. Whether or not you act on it, that potential is there.
As for innocent people being subject to the possibility of murder, we're all in that to one degree of another.