You do realize too... that hate crime legislation basically says.
Attacking someone because they are gay
is worse then
Attacking someone because you feel like it.
So you can have the exact same setup... someone wants to beat someone up because they are gay.
Another person wants to beat someone up because... they like beating people up.
Both stalk the person the exact same way.
Both beat the shit out of the person the same way.
And the person who did it because he hates gay people gets the worse sentence... why?
Because he was more picky in his choice of who he likes to beat up?
Because his crime had an emotional basis too it... vs say... a sociopathic basis. (i'll let you guess which is worse.)
You are trying to cherry pick one kind of "non-hate" crime motive to support your view... when there are tons of non-hate crime motives.
For example, a guy could be beat up for trying to help a woman get away from her abusive husband. Again, not a hate crime. Therefore apparently not as bad... though his actual motive was to keep abusing his wife and the result is more collatarel damage.
Or on the subject of spousal abuse.
One person may beat his wife because he thinks women are inferior to men.
Another may beat his wife because he thinks EVERYONE is inferior to him.
Again, you are saying the first is worse.
Or lets say dictators.
You have one dictator who kills 1 million members of a certain indiginious tribe in his plans to wipe them all out.
You have another dictator who kills 1 million random people because he is a militant nihilist. He and his followers believe that their is no god and therefore the only worthwhile thing to do is to end all life.
He apparently is less bad?
