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Originally posted by geep
I guess I really don't want images or anything else outlawed. I have a right to hate anyone or anything if that is my choice. I do not have a right to intimidate anyone under any circumstances. I simply wanted to imply that murder is not the only crime that is commited which involves the "hating" of a specific minority. Other crimes can bear this stigma as well. These types of crimes can victimize a community, while being targeted at an individual. Whether this warrants special criminal code or not is the question asked at the beginning of this thread. IMO expressing yourself at the expense of someone else is not freedom of speech, but an abuse of that freedom. I will admit, however that most of the hate crime legislation that I've encountered does seem to want to punish people for what they think. Clearly, the current publicity of this problem is 'media spawned' to police thought, but it has some merit at it's very core.
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the purpose would be to prevent your hating from turning into something illegal (like intimidation)