03-26-2012, 06:53 PM
People look at hate crime laws *ss backwards.
The idea is not that after you have bludgeoned someone to death because you hate them, the cruel cold arm of political correctness makes your sentence worse than it would have been.
The idea is that when you are contemplating bludgeoning someone to death because you hate them, that you are forced to ask yourself "is this going to be gratifying enough to justify the fact that I am going to have years and years piled onto my sentence because my motive was hate?
What's funny is that it's often the exact same people who claim that strict law and order is a deterrent who are the ones that piss and moan about hate crime laws.
The idea is not that after you have bludgeoned someone to death because you hate them, the cruel cold arm of political correctness makes your sentence worse than it would have been.
The idea is that when you are contemplating bludgeoning someone to death because you hate them, that you are forced to ask yourself "is this going to be gratifying enough to justify the fact that I am going to have years and years piled onto my sentence because my motive was hate?
What's funny is that it's often the exact same people who claim that strict law and order is a deterrent who are the ones that piss and moan about hate crime laws.