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do you agree or disagree?

Any violent crime, due to its being of a violent nature, should automatically carry an equivalent sentence to a hate crime. Regardless of victim or perpetrator, rape or murder, for instance, is equally horiffic, in and of itself, and thus should receive maximum sentence. Make additional legislation if necessary, making all 'non-hate' crimes receive the same punishment as hate crimes, under a different type of category. Hate crimes would still be punishable, as well as other equally heinous crimes.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Incentives should not matter, the actual crime should.

    No one robs you because they LIKE you....

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    How about if we remove HATE CRIME status as a whole and instead just add that amount of years to the crime? I'll admit there are a few actual hate crimes, but I disagree that they are worse then crimes if you are the victim.

  • 10 years ago

    Sounds like more shoot em all and let ths judge sort em out nonsense.

    i am opposed to all mandatory sentencing schemes. We are a society not a vengeance machine.

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