re: #410 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

You’re talking apples and oranges and making it across the board. I never said all murders require the same punishment. I feel first degree murders should require the death penalty, whether the victim was gay, black, a woman, whatever. If a man beats another man with a baseball bat when he’s drunk, its somehow less of a crime if he beats up a heterosexual white male instead of a gay black man? Its a brutal crime either way and the man should be put away for a long, long time.

apples to apples:
we consider intent when someone dies at the hand of another.
hate crimes laws add “intent due to hate of subject” as another consideration.

the only orange is that hate crimes laws add “intent” to assault, also.

Which isn’t that big of a difference.