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Originally Posted by Tishabet
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.
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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?