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Originally Posted by Tishabet View Post
I know I'm just stirring the pot here... in all honesty, I have internally inconsistent views with this stuff which I am trying to reconcile. I think hate crime laws are wrong because they arbitrarily add "weight" to a crime based on some relationship between the perp and the victim, yet I see that same relationship between adult and child as deserving of more weight as in the case of the child abuser, who deserves extra punishment.
Stirring the pot is always good.

The difference in your example between a hate crime and a crime between an adult and a child should be clear...at least I hope so.

The child is a child, and you know what that means. Should we now enact child hate crimes?
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