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Originally Posted by rahl
I'd be curious to see the statistics in which these crimes actually have a clear "hate" motivation. My problem with hate crimes is that it's nearly impossible to estabilish intent without a confession, or witnesses testifying that said person was spueing hate speach while committing said crime. Is it possible that alot of people have been charged and convicted for a hate crime for which the victim just happened to be of a different race, creed, sexual orientation and the purpotrator didn't neccessarily commit the crime because of those reasons?
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Whether or not a law is difficult to prosecute has no bearing on whether there should be that law or not. After all, the same thing can be said for all the variations of the charges of murder and homicide.