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Hate crimes are about degrees of wrongdoing. Just as there are degrees to other laws.
It's one thing to murder someone because of a botched robbery, because of revenge for something, etc.; it's another thing to murder someone because "he was a fucking faggot."
This law protects specific groups because of specific crimes targeted against them. Doesn't it seem natural enough?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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