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Originally Posted by valo403
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.
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No it doesn't. Where did I say the first example was random?