Thread: go to prison for insulting someone?

There are always arguments that pop up in any discussion about the hate crime category. People usually say they don't understand why a hate crime is any worse than any other classification of crime. The reason is quite simple. Hate crime is an act of violence committed against someone because of their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or the like. It has been proven that the criminal committing a crime against someone for no reason other than the victims race, religion, sexual orientation, etc is a sociopath with no goal other than to cause mayhem. The victims themselves are the reason for the crime. Whether it is four little girls in a church basement getting blown up because they happened to be black or a homosexual teenager getting beaten severely and tied to a fence post where he died two days later simply because he was gay or two Hasidic Jewish teens being beaten to death by a mob on a New York City street because they were Jewish, these are acts committed out of hatred. Certainly the crime is no different to the victim than it would be if say the gay kid was killed in the commission of a robbery. However, a criminal that commits hate crimes is much worse as he is more likely to do what he sets out to do. As he is not driven by any logical motive, he has also less fear of reprisal. In most cases if he gets caught he feels as though he is a martyr for his cause.