Question

make a responce to the following paragragh:(explian)

Do you favor or oppose hate crime laws? Why?

In my understanding, hate crime laws are based in intention. I understand the point of view that punishing someone more or less based upon their intent or reasoning can take away freedom of speech. In our country everyone is allowed to have and express his own personal beliefs- as long as they cause no direct harm- regardless of how another person views those beliefs. If you say that because someone committed a crime because of their hatred of another race they should receive a longer sentence, then it is saying they are not allowed to believe as they do. This does incriminate on freedom of speech. However, we regard intention in cases other than hate crime. We have many degrees of murder charges and each one has its own consequences based on the intents of the guilty party. We are fine with restricting freedom of speech in this way because of the severity of the action. Why should hate crime punishment be handled differently?

Answer 1

Do you favor or oppose hate crime laws? Why?

I favour hate crime laws.

“In our country everyone is allowed to have and express his own personal beliefs- as long as they cause no direct harm- regardless of how another person views those beliefs.”

When talking about freedom of speech, the person who is arguing refutes his own argument. This person is saying that it is okay to have personal beliefs as long as they don’t harm anyone. But in this case, when a person is harming another person in the form of physically assaulting that person just to exercise his rights of freedom, implies that he is snatching the rights of the victim to lead a peaceful life.

I believe, that intentions matter. When a person is harming another person just to exercise his opinions it would mean, that any person would get up early morning, think of his right to do what he believes, pull out a gun and kill the person who he hates. Would that be justified in the name of exercising freedom? It has to be understood that in this case the freedom of one person takes away the right of quality of life of another person. Under the American constitution,every citizen is equal andevery citizen has their basic rights to be protected. It is okay for one person to dislike another ethnicity (hypothetically) but this should only be kept to their minds. When they take actions in hurtful ways against another person it means that they are acting against their right to exercise their religion. Hence, hate crimes are wrong.