Should "Hate Crimes" Be Abolished?

To answer your question;

Yes, Because the argument can be made that all crime is based on hatred....

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Tough question. Was the crime in question an action merely motivated by 'hate' or is 'hate' actually the crime? Personally, the idea of a 'hate crime' is a bit of a stretch for me, as I view crimes as acts that injure a person or their property. The motivation for a crime is of little interest to me since laws exist that protect people and property, and those are what should be enforced. To the last question, no, I don't see how a woman could be charged with a hate crime in that instance--there is a clear and present threat with a deadly weapon. That is textbook self-defense.

Hope this is a clear enough response.

Don't make it sound as if the police have no capability of learning the motives of a criminal, that courts of law have never, ever tried to discover the motives of a criminal. Of course fact-gathering systems of law have been able to find out what caused a criminal to commit the crime.

I have had objections to some of the ideas in the hate crime laws that have been passed, such as the concept of committing a crime based on hatred of GENDER and hatred of DISABILITIES, but I oppose those because I have never heard of those kinds of crimes being committed. I don't understand the concept, for example, of person A attacking person B because B is deaf or blind, or is in a wheelchair. But I do understand white-on-black and black-on-white hate crimes and straight-on-gay (and even hypothetical gay-on-straight) hate crimes.

All crimes are crimes of hate. When we give protection to certain groups we define them as being less equal and limit the rights of others. I am a Caucasian woman. An act of murder against me is not a crime of hate?

Today all the religions have brought this world to a state of irreligiousness. If all the religions were correct the world might not have been, in the state which it is now. Atleast people following the correct religion would have been embodiment of virtues and values, which we can't find. Real religion actually shows people How to live and how to let others Live. Today people instead of having faith, they have blind faith, which is the main reason for all the chaos. Once every one come to know who God is? There will be end to all this fight and each and every problem of the world will be solved. The perfect solution to this problem is, God must come destroy all this religions and establish one true religion. till then we will be complaining without much happening to change the situation.

Yes, All "Hate Crime Laws" must be repealed as soon as possible. They pervert the concept of enforcing any Law.

I liked that you mentioned Natural Law. Aquinas wrote well on not forbidding all vices by civil law.

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Yes. They are only used 1 way, white on minority. When a minority commits a crime and says the same things the white person did it suddenly does not become a hate crime. It is a double standard.

hate crimes are bull$#!+ hypocritical pick and choose system...

if a black guy hits you and you beat him so badly he has to go to the hospital you can get charged for hate crimes because he's black and your not so you must have hated him to put him in the hospital.

while in reality I was defending myself and I punched him in the face once and fell and cracked his head open.

if he didn't hit me, I would never have hit him back and he never would have got knocked down and smashed his head open.

whereas in reality he was being racist and calling me a cracker and trying to get me to hit him first, but I didn't and I still got in trouble for fighting a racist...

That is not a hate crime. It is a crime of passion. They are different. What about selfdefense?? A person kills another because he thinks or views he is in danger. How does your argument not apply to this??