@Walter Hinteler,
Walter Hinteler wrote:
OmSigDAVID wrote:Well, hate-crime law is based on naked emotion,
not upon sound reasoning.
Like 'murder' (malice aforethought) is compared to manslaughter ...
Calculation, in preparation for a felony,
does
not necessarily involve
emotion.
A paid Mafia hit-man does not even
KNOW
his intended victim, except as a target.
A robber may murder his victim
to avoid complaints to police
or inimical testimony in court.
That does not require emotion.
Robbery is a crime of profit, not of passion;
so also murders executed in support thereof.
That is a well
reasoned plan,
in furtherance of the benefit of the predator,
who may very well never have met his victim b4 the crime.
When Bruno Hauptman kidnapped baby Lindbergh,
( I take the inference that: ) he did not HATE the baby, but his crime was
AFORETHOUGHT.
David