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Originally posted by Sparhawk
This is all about intent, a lot of you seem to be missing that point...
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Intent being one of the more difficult things to prove in court. If a man tells a few jokes about gays in a bar one night and gets into a fight with a man one week later and kills him, only to find out later that he's gay, would this be considered a hate crime? Even if he knew beforehand that the man he was fighting with was gay but the fight was about something else is it? What if he just hates him as an individual? These are the questions that need to be asked before we blindly accept hate crime legislation.
And what about cases like Muhammad and Malvo. Could their crimes be considered hate crimes? If not then what makes their crimes less heinous or terroristic?