You guys are all frigging hilarious, you know that? It doesn't matter what the subject is, no matter how serious or stupid, important or random, you manage to turn it into a battle of personal insults and beratements. You have no idea how badly it reflects on you and the validity of your arguments when every third post is just an attack on somebody's grammer or something stupid like that.
And, as for hate crimes, everybody seems to grasp a piece of it- yes, the laws are in place to deal with crimes motivated purely by discrimination against race, religion, etc, and, yes, the increased time of punishment is because the amount of time required for the rehabillitation of those people is greater, but, just like so many other laws and policies, it has proven far too hard to distinguish these certain circumstances in every case. All too often, a law meant to duly punish someone who assaults, say, a black man because he is black, is used to over-punish someone who assaults a black man for sleeping with his wife.
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