The way we define a hate crime, it's almost like one life is more valuable than another. Used to be the heinous nature of a crime made it worse, now all we have to do is assign a race or gender difference and it automatically becomes the ugliest offense, with folks more insistent about seeing justice served. I think we should be more consistent with all criminals and less prone to react on our differences alone. Most crimes involve some kind of hate. Justice should be meted out by what they do, not by what we think their intention was.
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