Canada kicks racist butt!

[rocketpig]

sapphi_snake said:

rocketpig said:

No, you're prosecuting them for an idea. If a person is raped, the perp is prosecuted and punished for that crime.

But if that person is a Klan member and rapes a black woman, that person is punished MORE. How is that NOT the prosecution of an idea?

If the act is heinous (such as torture), the person is usually punished more harshly for the lack of remorse and cruel nature of the crime. If the person is a repeat offender, the punishment is more harsh the second or third time around. The only difference here is the idea of why the crime was committed.

Yes, and the ideea matters, I never said otherwise. However he's being prosecuted for his actions, his motives being criteria used to determine how dangerous the individual is.

Ignoring that harsher punishment has not shown itself to be a deterrent to violent crime in almost every instance, it's not being used to determine how dangerous the individual is, the crime showed that with facts. It's used as punishment for committing an unpopular crime and allows equal crimes to be punished more harshly in certain instances.

These are CRIMES. The motive for almost every one of them is a bad one. The person could hate short people, gingers, Republicans, Democrats, metrosexuals, rich people, poor people, blah blah blah. Why are we allowing courts to include the victim and use subjective reasoning to establish punishment when the crime itself speaks volumes about the type of person being prosecuted?

It's a "feel good" law. I HATE "feel good" laws. A crime was committed. That should be enough for anyone.