Reply #28: I find it unfortunate that you can't like or respect someone with

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whom you disagree.

Personally, I prefer to see all crime punished. Motive, to me, is irrelevant - murder is murder, harassment is harassment, intimidation is intimidation, theft is theft.

By setting up "hate crimes", you marginalize those who have been violated but not violated "hatefully". It also suggests that some crimes are done for the sake of "like" or "love", apparently. Or at worse, "indifference". By setting up "hate crimes", you are saying to people, "Your life isn't worth as much as these other people's. Sorry."

I don't see any reason for it.

Punish all the crimes, and punish them equally, and protect all people equally under the law, and value all life and all propoety equally.