So I'm sitting here with my coffee looking at the cover of the latest Advocate, which mentions the hate crimes law and what the LGBT community may want added to it
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I think the idea behind defining a crime as a hate crime was to punish the motive as well as the crime. The idea is to discourage the "isms"--if you grow up knowing that the government is harder on people who kill clowns than people who kill their SOs in a blaze of passion or kill someone during a robbery, then you get the idea that killing clowns because they're clowns is somehow wrong. It's like subliminal attacks against anti-clown thoughts and feelings. I don't know if it works, though.
That's the only reasoning I can think of. I'd be interested in seeing whether that's actually worked, though it'd be hard to quantify how much of that is because of hate crimes legislation, and how much because people are generally getting over things like people being gay. Or being clowns. No, I'm still not over clowns. ;)
Tailoring a punishment to fit a crime is a good idea, but it seldom works, since the punishments are never enough to deter people. Even if you castrate a rapist, it doesn't change who they are on the inside. They'll still have the sick desires.
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Tailoring a punishment to fit a crime is a good idea, but it seldom works, since the punishments are never enough to deter people. Even if you castrate a rapist, it doesn't change who they are on the inside. They'll still have the sick desires.
And I adore your icon, luv.
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