ok sid, so fat/gay/deminished digited people arn't covered by your hate crime laws, then maybe your laws should be expanded. the purpose of hate crime laws is to punish worse crimes harsher, killing someone for no reason (ie becase there black, jewish, english) is worse than killing them for some reason, even if it's a realy realy lame reason (he pissed me off, he killed my father, he killed my fragile belefe in the invisable majical man in the sky, the aliens told me to)
I agree with you that someone who kills someone else becase there gay or fat should be given virtualy the same treatment as someone who killed someone becase there black.
and An0n, as much as I agree with the "Hate is humanity." concept I disagree with the idea that love and compasion are somehow non-human concepts that have somehow been imposed on us (by society or whatever). love and compasion (or something similar) are necisary for any socal animal, and to an extent needed for any animal that raises it's young (this would exclude most (but not all) reptiles, fish, and invertabrates (not sure on how socal insects would fit in to this)). humans evolved to live in famely groupes of 10 -100 people, we need love and compasion to help our famlies as much as we need hate to kill off rivals and failed mutations. if you disagree consider the following scenario, two camps of humans one groupe has only hate and selfishnes, the other has also compasion, given relitivly harsh conditions wich of the two would likely have the larger population given several hundred years.