On 10-Jul-2009, at 05:57, Arno Hautala wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:43, LuKreme<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 9-Jul-2009, at 18:36, Arno Hautala wrote:
>>>
>>> Isn't every crime one against society?
>>
>> To some extent, yes. But society has ALWAYS classified some crimes
>> as
>> more serious, even if the underlying crime is the same. Rape is a
>> crime, rape of a child is a much more serious crime, for example.
>> Rape
>> of a child from a person in a position of trust is an even MORE
>> serious crime.
>
> True, but those examples focus on who the victim is (which to some
> degree does change the crime), not the motivation behind it.
A hate crime is focusing on who the person is in relation to the
criminal EXACTLY like the "in a position of trust' classification of
child molestation.
--
It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for
all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be
literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent
on words.
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