sapphi_snake on 13 November 2010
pizzahut451 said:
sapphi_snake said:
pizzahut451 said:
But if the person attacks the white middle aged guy simply because he hates him, thats not a hate crime and the guy should get a smaller sentence, right?
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Again, hate crimes refer to groups, and are meant to targert a certain type of criminal (one who thinks harassing/assaulting/killing a group of people due to certain characteristics that group possese is justified and right).
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Hate crimes refer to the crimes that involve hate. than pretty much every type of aussault and murder. is a hate crime. Because every person belongs to a certan group of people.The motive is not important. Its the crime itself. A guy who beat up a gay person shouldnt get a higher sentence than a guy who beat up straight person, even if he does hate gay people.
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The motive is very important to establish how dangerous the individual is, and how likely he's able to be rehabilitated. It's not so much WHO was attacked/harassed/killed etc., but rather WHY the criminal acted the way he/she did.
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