06.25
There are a few things I don’t tow the democratic-farmer-labor party line. Crime is crime. Hate is inevitable in a situation involving assault, murder, and rape. It is also trying to look inside the head of somebody – which is impossible. You can’t raise the river and lower the bridge. It lessens the importance for non-hate-based crimes. I am fully behind having harsher penalties for killing cops because a cop is a symbol of law enforcement. We are not going to police thought – evil or good – because it is a sippery slope. Where do we draw the line?
There is a psychological factor behind this that I understand. If you kill somebody for who they are then you are not killing somebody for any personal benefit and would do it again with all things being equal. Perhaps this is about being a heterosexual ambulatory white male.
Here is something to think about, are not all killings in war considered hate crimes?