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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I was referencing my injuries to show the two situations were identical except for the basis on which I was chosen by the perpetrators to be one of their victims.
But neither of my instances were random crimes. Both were groups targeting people for the purpose of doing harm. In one of them the method of choosing was either random, or for all we know it was based on my height, weight, attire, favorite sports team. Yet that instance will warrant "regular" laws apply to the perpetrators.
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Huh? Your example quite clearly contains one incident in which someone is beaten for no reason and one where someone is targeted based upon their gender/sexual orientation. Those are different situations and warrant different treatment. As I said, the latter allows for a group of people to be left living in fear of becoming a victim. Hate crime laws allow groups or individuals who seek to terrorize others based upon sex, religion etc. to be treated more harshly, which in turn (in theory) prevents these protected groups from being intimidated and marginalized.