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Topic | 16 year girl caught planning to commit a hate crime in North Georgia |
_AdjI_ 11/21/19 12:42:48 PM #38: | ParanoidObsessive posted... But is someone planning a mass murder spree at a black church somehow inherently so much worse than a white person planning a mass murder spree at a white church? It could easily be a hate crime either way, though. As mentioned, being racially motivated doesn't require the perpetrator to be a different race from the victims, and there can easily be unifying factors other than race in those scenarios (such as the whole church thing). ParanoidObsessive posted... It's not like the people are going to be any less dead if you murdered them for no obvious reason, whereas racism makes them extra dead. As I mentioned earlier, the hate crime aspect is less relevant to the crime at hand and more relevant to determining how much of a threat they are to society (which should always be the primary consideration in sentencing somebody). Somebody shoots up a church because they were bullied by some of the congregants, they're going to have fewer potential future targets than somebody who shoots up the church because it was full of a certain type of people. The former is emotionally unstable, the latter is genocidal, meaning the latter is more dangerous. Of course, the distinction becomes pretty moot when talking about actual murder, since premeditated murder carries an automatic life sentence in most cases, with the murderer only getting out earlier than that if there's reason to believe they're no longer a threat. That's not really going to change between regular murder and hate murder. In this case, however, her plan was interrupted, so her genocidal inclinations warrant a longer sentence than more personal motivations would, for the sake of public safety. At least, that would be valid logic if being in prison didn't stand a good chance of radicalizing her further by exposing her to like-minded individuals, but that's another problem. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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